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WILL  HIGHER  OF  GOD 

AND 

Free  Will  of  Life  Made 

By  the  Authors  of  "Thought  for  Help" 

WILLIAM  C.  COMSTOCK 

Amanuensis 
WITH  A  FOREWORD  BY 

REV.   JOSEPH  A.  MILBURN 
Pastor  Plymouth  Congregational  Church,  Chicago 


RICHARD  G.  BADGER 

BOSTON 


Copyright,  1914,  by  William  C.  Comstock 


All  rights  reserved  rr,,„ 

BSYCH. 

LIBRARY 


The  Gorham  Press,  Boston,  U.  S.  A. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Foreword v 

The  Writer's  Preface xi 

Introduction xiii 

I  Work    of    Man 

1  Firm   Will   of   Man 1 

2  Will  for  Life  Worthy 21 

3  Worth   of   Life 28 

II  Philosophy 

1  Wisdom  of  Men 41 

2  Will  that   Made   the   Universe    Rules   It  41 

3  Will   of   God   Rules   Life 46 

4  Will  Free  of  Life  Personal      ....  49 

5  Will  Free  P'ulfills  the  Purpose  of  Will 

Higher 85 

6  Life    Personal 91 

7   Purpose   of   Free   Personal   Life     ...  92 

III      Purpose  of  Will  Higher 99 

IV     The    Powers    of    Life 109 

V     Words   for    Help 113 

VI     Final   Word 129 


FOREWORD 

No  thought  is  more  engaging  in  its  loveliness 
and  nobler  in  its  reactions  upon  life  and  conduct 
than  the  thought  of  "Immortality,"  and  the  great- 
est service  that  one  man  can  do  another  is,  by  word 
or  deed,  to  give  this  sweet  expectancy  of  the  larger 
life  the  fibre  and  the  consistency  of  a  certitude. 

The  critical  and  exacting  spirit  of  our  times  can 
no  longer  be  satisfied  with  a  purely  subjective 
religion.  Our  age  goes  to  nature  for  its  science, 
and  the  day  is  not  far  away  when  its  prayers  and 
its  creeds  and  its  worship  will  be  founded  on  the 
vital  realities  of  life. 

The  reflective  mind  has  taken  a  distaste  to  the 
barren  syllogisms  of  theology.  It  asks  for  a  God 
who  is  rooted  in  reality,  and  an  immortality  that 
has  its  sanction  and  demonstration  in  human  ex- 
perience. 

Until  recent  years,  the  arguments  supporting 
the  thesis  of  a  future  life  have  been  altogether  meta- 
physical. If  one  asked  for  a  demonstration  of  this 
high  and  noble  faith  in  the  endless  persistency  of 
the  ego,  the  enquiring  mind  has  had  to  content 
itself  with  logical  proofs  deduced  from  abstract  and 


vi  Foreword 

remote  generalities — such  as  the  indestructibility 
of  matter,  the  persistency  of  force,  the  rationality 
of  the  universe,  and  the  universality  of  the  belief. 
Each  of  these  arguments  has  a  certain  evidential 
value,  and  all  of  them  taken  together  have  a  proba- 
tive force  amounting  to  a  moral  certainty;  but 
"moral  certainty"  after  all  is  a  vague  certainty, 
and  in  this  great  matter  the  mind  has  the  right  to 
ask  for  evidence  that  is  as  cold  and  cogent  as  the 
evidences  that  go  to  establish  the  undulatory  the- 
ory of  light  and  the  Copernican  system  of  astron- 
omy. If  the  world  that  is  ever  growing  more 
critical  and  judicial  shall  continue  to  cherish  the 
belief  in  the  immortality  of  man  as  a  real  force  of 
life,  its  faith  must  be  founded,  not  on  the  subtleties 
of  logic,  but  on  the  more  solid  ground  of  the  hard, 
indisputable  facts  of  the  psychic  world  that  is  en- 
gaging, by  the  pressure  of  its  extraordinary  data, 
the  attention  and  the  adhesion  of  many  of  the  fore- 
most men  of  letters,  of  art  and  of  science.  How- 
ever supercilious  our  skepticism  may  be,  unless  our 
minds  are  hermetically  sealed  by  the  blind  bigotry 
of  prejudice,  we  are  coerced  by  the  benign  tyranny 
of  facts  to  admit  that  beyond  this  normal  world  in 
which  we  all  meet  on  a  democratic  equality  of 
faculties  there  is  a  supernormal  world — the  world 
of  clairvoyance,  clairaudience,  telepathy,  autom- 
atism,   inspirational    writing,    and    other    strange 


Foreword  vii 

and  extraordinary  forces — a  supernormal  world  in 
which  a  few  elect  spirits  are  qualified  to  live  and 
labour,  hy  virtue  of  certain  affinities  of  the  psychic 
organism  with  which  they  are  peculiarly  endowed. 
Our  leading  men  of  science — Oliver  Lodge, 
Crooks,  Alfred  Russell  Wallace,  William  James, 
and  many  others — tell  us  that  we  can  no  longer  ig- 
nore this  supernormal  world,  and  that  it  calls  for 
investigation  and  discovery  just  as  insistently  as 
the  world  of  matter  calls  for  investigation  and  dis- 
covery. 

It  is  one  of  the  educative  functions  of  this  book 
to  bring  the  supernormal  world  with  more  vivid 
impact  upon  the  consciousness  of  all  those  who  are 
seeking  light,  and  who  are  courting  truth  with  open 
minds. 

The  spiritual  message  that  this  book  brings  to  us 
in  its  reverent  pages  is  the  largest  wisdom  that  man 
can  attain  upon  this  earth.  Its  high  and  divine 
motive  is  the  enthronement  of  the  will  of  God  in 
the  processes  of  history  and  in  the  realization  of  the 
destiny  of  the  individual,  and  its  central  theme  is 
the  subordination  of  the  will  of  man,  perfect  in  its 
freedom,  to  the  architectonic  purpose  and  the  in- 
vincible plan  of  the  Eternal. 

The  noble  lesson  of  this  brave  and  helpful  book 
is  the  final  apotheosis  of  the  human  will,  through 
the  gradual  illuminations  of  experience,  sweet  and 


viii  Foreword 

bitter,  and  through  many  and  repeated  reincarna- 
tions, in  which  man  has  ample  time  and  scope  to 
escape  from  the  confusions  and  incoherences  of 
blind  impulse,  and  to  adjust,  in  happy,  progressive 
submission,  his  own  will,  without  compulsion  or 
coercion,  to  the  unswerving  decree  of  the  Infinite. 
The  philosophy  of  life  contains  within  itself  no 
more  enlarging,  no  more  consolatory  counsel  than 
lies  buried  in  the  white  and  tranquil  deeps  of  the 
sovereign  will  of  God — the  master  theme  of  this 
noble  volume,  which  is  as  rich  in  the  treasures  of 
wisdom  as  it  is  compact  in  expression.  And  yet  to 
my  mind,  noble  as  is  the  ministry  of  the  wisdom 
that  comes  to  us  through  this  treatise,  its  first  im- 
portance is  not  the  deliverance  of  philosophy  it 
makes  to  the  devout  spirit,  but  rather  the  deliver- 
ance of  the  proof  it  affords  to  the  enquiring  and 
exacting  intellect  searching  for  light  on  the  great- 
est of  all  problems, — the  problem  of  man's  con- 
scious, personal  survival  of  the  catastrophe  of 
death. 

The  writer  of  this  book — a  man  whose  life  is 
dominated  by  the  most  austere  ideals  of  truth  and 
honour — a  man  of  sagacity  and  culture,  whose  life, 
in  its  chosen  sphere  of  operation,  has  been  an  un- 
broken success — tells  us  that  the  teachings  and 
revelations  which  find  expression  through  him  are 
in  no  sense  the  product  of  his  own  reflection;  that 


Foreword  ix 

his  function  as  an  author  has  exhausted  itself  in  the 
duties  of  an  amanuensis;  and  that  he  has  been  the 
passive,  though  conscious,  vehicle  of  celestial  intel- 
ligences.    The  author  of  this  volume  is  dowered 
with  the  rare  gift  of  clairaudience.     He  has  written 
what  he  has  written,  in  form,  in  style  and  in  sub- 
stance, word  by  word,  under  the  conscious  impacts 
of  discarnate  intelligences — not  the  less  real  be- 
cause   they    are    mystical    and    inscrutable.     Of 
course,  there  are  many  people,  enslaved  in  propen- 
sions  dominantly  mundane  and  material,  who  will 
waft  aside  as  impossible  and  incredible  the  author's 
faith  in  the   supersensual  origin  of  this  treatise. 
But  it  will  come  to  those  who  have  a  hunger  for  the 
Infinite,  a  passion  for  the  Eternal,  as  a  courageous 
and  persuasive  witness  to  a  belief  that  is  growing 
with  man's  growth  in  vision  and  in  spirituality — 
the  belief  that  the  personality  of  man  is  rooted  in 
the  eternities,  and  that  there  is  a  solidarity  of  spirit- 
ual life  and  light  and  love  that  comprehends  all 
worlds,  all  planes  of  conscious  life — angelic  and 
human — within  its  cosmic  grasp,  with  the  master- 
ful ease  with  which  gravity  comprehends  all  planets 
and  all  suns. 

The  day  is  not  far  distant  when  man  shall  stand 
upon  the  peaks  of  the  cumulative  wonders  of  his 
spiritual  experiences  and  affirm,  without  reserve 
or  hesitation,  "I  know  my  soul  to  be  immortal." 


x  Foreword 

And  it  is  the  blessed  privilege  of  this  treatise  meas- 
urably to  aid  in  lifting  this  great  faith  in  the  eter- 
nity of  man's  being  out  of  the  twilight  world  of 
speculation  into  the  world  of  high  light,  the  world 
of  demonstration  and  of  certitude. 

Joseph  Anthony  Milburn. 


THE  WRITER'S  PREFACE 

AGAIN  it  has  been  my  privilege  to  be  the 
writer  for  those  in  the  wider  life  beyond 
earth  who  would  help  men  to  win  that 
wider  life.  The  intent  of  this  volume  is 
to  help  men's  faith  in  the  wise  and  benevolent  pur- 
pose of  God,  which  follows  the  life  that  He  made 
while  it  is  man  and  forever;  to  help  their  under- 
standing of  the  function  of  man's  work  in  the  pur- 
pose of  Him  who  made  man's  life  immortal  self; 
and  to  make  clear  that  the  higher  purpose  of  God 
must  be,  and  is  fulfilled  by  the  free  will  and  pur- 
pose of  man  himself. 

The  thought  gives  a  new  meaning  to  work,  and 
brings  to  him  who  will  think  a  new  sense  of  the  re- 
sponsibility of  selfhood.  It  is  helpful  thought  for 
the  philosopher,  and  for  the  "man  in  the  street"; 
thought  which  each  man  may  take  to  his  work,  to 
his  reading,  and  to  his  thinking,  and  find  it  help 
for  them  all. 

As  was  the  volume  "Thought  for  Help,"  so  is 
this  volume;   not  my  word,   not   one   little   word 


xii  The  Writer  s  Preface 

mine,  but  a  word  for  help  from  those  in  the  wider 
life  who  know  that  it  is  truth. 

William  C.  Comstock. 
Chicago,  September,  1914. 


INTRODUCTION 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  the  will  of  Omnipo- 
tent God,  wills  in  man's  life,  wills 
in  life's  work  forever.  Man,  life 
purposed  wider,  fuller,  more  glori- 
ous life,  finds  his  wisdom  by  God's  purpose.  That 
wisdom  life  takes  to  freed  life.  Willed  the  man's 
life  for  teaching,  willed  man's  work  also  for  teach- 
ing, the  life  immortal  wills  for  its  own  future  by 
God's  purpose.  Yet  man  is  ruled,  and  life  is  ruled 
by  Omnipotent  Will.  None  may  escape  His  will; 
none  may  forbid  His  purpose.  Man,  wilier  on 
earth  for  life  immortal,  has  the  power  willed  from 
God.  The  life  which  for  earth  is  man  finds,  as 
God  wills,  the  worth  that  frees  that  life  from  earth. 
Man  who  wills,  find  help  from  these  words. 
God  grant  that  the  book  may  help  many. 


I 

WORK  OF  MAN 


FIRM  WILL  OF  MAN 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  whose  purpose  life 
made  by  Him  fulfills,  was  when 
life  made  was  not.  His  will  rules 
the  life  which  he  made.  His  will 
rules  the  Universe.  Man  who  has  from  Him  life 
has  by  His  will  the  work  of  earth. 

Man  who  works  life's  earth  work  has  for  his  use 
in  that  work  the  will  of  life  itself.  That  will,  free 
while  man  uses  it,  wins  for  man  the  worth  which 
life  must  find  in  man.  Will  firm  life  wins  by 
man's  work.  Man,  who  works  using  life's  free 
will,  learns  by  the  teaching  of  life's  work  of  man 
the  lesson  God  purposes.  Work  then  man  has  that 
life  find  firm  free  will,  firm  for  work,  firm  for 
worth.  God  wills  for  life  freedom  won  by  will  of 
man. 

Will  Higher,  Will  who  made  man,  wills  for  him 
work.  That  work  teach  man  his  Maker  wills;  that 
by  work  the  will  be  made  firm  his  Maker  wills;  that 
by  work  his  juurpose  be  made  firm  God  wills.     The 


2  Will  Higher  of  God 

life  purposed  man's  work  is  taught  by  the  work  of 
earth  till  it  learns  that  which  its  Maker  purposes, 
will  and  purpose  firm;  and  that  which  God  pur- 
poses life  shall  find,  firm  will,  firm  purpose,  it  finds 
through  the  way  He  provides,  the  work  of  earth. 
Work  then  man  has  by  God's  will  that  through  its 
teaching  life  win  the  firm  will  and  purpose  which 
free  that  life  from  earth. 

Think,  man  who  wills  weakly.  Man  must  work 
life's  earth  work ;  man  must  find  the  firm  will  which 
life  takes  to  freedom.  Work  of  man  teaches  life 
which  wills  its  wider  work  by  the  firm  will  which 
man  must  find. 

Man  wins  for  life  through  his  work  of  earth  the 
firm  will  which  helps  life  freed.  Life  wins  firm 
will  when  man  has  won  it.  For  life  man  works, 
for  life  he  wills.  "When  life  has  by  the  work  of 
man  won  the  firm  will  which  by  God's  purpose  it 
must,  He  wills  for  it  wider  work  in  wider  life. 
Work  helps  man,  the  life  willed  freedom,  and  with 
the  firm  will  which  man  finds  by  his  work  life  wills 
for  its  wider  work.  When  life  has  worked  man's 
work  well,  when  it  has  finished  that  work,  God  frees 
it  from  man.  Man  then,  whose  work  he  does  well 
or  ill  as  he  chooses,  must  find  firm  will  or  liis  life  is 
not  freed.     Think,  man  of  earth,  think  well. 

Work  of  man  is  purposed  to  teach  the  life  for 
which  Higher  Will  purposes  wider  work  beyond 


Firm  Will  of  Man  3 

earth.  Work  of  life  man  has,  work  which  life  must 
finish  before  it  wins  worthiness  for  its  wider  work. 
Work  purposed  man  has.  For  that  work  man 
wills  as  he  chooses.  But  till  he  wins  firm  will  life 
works  on  earth.  Remember  this,  who  work  weakly. 
Man  must  find  firm  will  that  life  find  wider  life. 

Will  of  life's  Maker,  Will  that  made  man  life 
for  worlds,  is  the  Will  of  Omnipotence.  Will  of 
the  Master  of  All  wills  that  life  find  worth  first  in 
man.  When  life  has  found  in  man  the  worth 
which,  by  the  purpose  of  God,  frees  from  earth, 
man's  body  dies.  Life  lives  on,  freed  from  man's 
work,  freed  from  the  infirm  will  that  hinders  worth 
in  man,  and  worthy  the  wider  work  which  God  wills 
for  life  freed.  The  work  of  life  in  man  on  earth  is 
purposed  to  teach  firm  will.  Found  by  life  of  man 
then  must  be  the  firm  will  needed  when  life  in  free- 
dom works  its  higher  work.  The  finished  work  of 
man  makes  life  worthy  higher  work.  Will  firm 
won  by  life  in  man's  work  helps  wider  life's  work. 
Will  firm  won  for  life  worthy  in  man  wins  life's 
worth  in  life  wider.  Man  then  must  finish  well 
life's  work  of  earth,  for  until  that  work  is  finished 
life  is  held  to  earth.  Man,  then,  has  for  his  life  to 
find  the  firm  will  that  life  finds  help  for  work  and 
worth  forever. 

Will  with  which  man  uses  the  life  of  earth,  will 
which  finally  wins  the  freedom  that  Will  Higher 


4  Will  Higher  of  God 

purposes,  is  the  power  of  life  personal.  That  life 
which  wills  is  man  while  the  work  of  man  is  to  be 
finished.  That  work  purposed  to  teach  must  teach 
that  which  Will  Higher  purposes  before  the  life 
wins  higher  life.  Will  that  must  then,  man  has; 
will  that  wins  purposed  worth  because  it  must. 
Life's  must  is  to  win  worth  of  free  will.  Free  will 
man  knows  he  uses.  His  life  personal  uses  will  in 
the  work  of  life  for  which  wider  work  is  purposed. 
Then  free  will  he  uses  finally  well  because  his  man's 
work  is  by  Higher  Will  purposed  to  be  teaching 
for  the  will.  Man  wills  his  worth  using  free  will, 
yet  that  free  will  finally  fulfills  God's  purpose  be- 
cause it  is  by  the  work  of  man  taught.  Wise  use  of 
free  will  finishes  man's  work;  wise  use  of  free  will 
man,  the  life,  finds  finally  because  life  is  working  on 
earth  the  work  which  by  the  purpose  of  Omnipo- 
tent Will  teaches  that  life  wisdom.  Will  free 
finally  becomes  wise  free  will  because  man  is  life 
for  which  free  will  taught  is  purposed. 

The  work  of  life  man  has  for  his  work.  The  life 
must  by  man's  work  find  firm  will.  Man  wins  that 
firm  will  himself.  The  weak  man  who  works 
weakly  wins  but  further  work  of  man.  That  life 
which  works  well  in  man  wins  firm  will  for  the  life 
beyond  man's  world.  That  which  Will  Higher 
purposes  life  of  man  must  fulfill.  The  firm  free 
will   which   man  finds  life  finds.     When  life  has 


Firm  Will  of  Man  5 

found  that  firm  will  it  wins  wider  life.  Remember, 
you  who  work  weakly,  the  man  himself  wins  that 
will  which  frees  life  immortal. 

Man  works  his  work  using  the  power  which  life 
will  forever  use;  man  wills  that  work  well  finished; 
then  life  has  won  wider  work.  Man  wills  that  life 
be  worthy;  life  has  found  that  which  brings  wider, 
fuller  life.  Think,  man  who  works.  Life  works 
as  you  do.     Think  well. 

The  will  which  man  uses  is  life's  free  will.  Life 
wins  its  worth  forever  using  firm  will.  But  while 
life  is  man  it  perhaps  wills  weakly.  Then  the  life 
waits  for  wider  life.  Then  will  firm  life  must  find 
in  man  or  wait  for  freedom?  Yes,  but  the  pur- 
pose of  life's  Maker  life  finally  fulfills,  and,  willing 
firmly  its  worth,  it  finds  the  wider  life.  Wise  pur- 
pose of  the  Wilier  of  Life  makes  life  free  in  will, 
and  when  life  wills  wrell  it  finds  free  will  the  help 
Will  Higher  purposes  it  shall  be  finally.  When 
life  wins  firm  will  in  man  it  has  found  that  will 
which  Will  Higher  purposes  that  life  in  man  must 
find.  But  that  will  life  wins  for  itself.  Work 
purposed  teaches  will;  mistakes  will  teach.  Man 
wills  his  purposed  worth  himself.  Will  firmly  used 
by  man  wins  for  his  life  the  worth  which  life  must 
find  by  God's  purpose. 

With  powers  of  life  man  works  his  man's  work, 
using  free  will  in  that  work  for  purpose  that  will 


6  Will  Higher  of  God 

free  be  made  will  firm.  The  will  which  life  uses 
forever  is  the  will  which  life  uses  for  man's  work. 
Then  will  is  by  the  life  of  man  taught,  for  Will 
Higher  purposes  that  life  find  by  the  teaching  of 
work  the  firm  will  that  helps  life  while  it  is. 
What  from  this  follows?  This — will  firm  man  finds 
by  wise  use  of  free  will  made  his  for  purpose  that 
life  personal  find  firm  will  on  earth.  Well  life 
works  finally  in  man,  well  life  wills  finally  in  man, 
for  by  that  Will  who  wills  for  life  forever  man  is 
willed  wider  life  won  by  his  free  will.  Would  life 
willed  worth  find  worth  of  free  will?  Life  must 
find  worth,  and  the  will  of  life  is  free.  Then  man 
finds  by  life's  free  will  the  worth  which  brings  wider 
life. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  the  work  of  man. 
That  work  teaches  finally  the  free  will  of  life.  His 
work  man  has  that,  while  he  finishes  it,  he  shall  win 
the  firm  will  that  life  takes  to  higher  life.  The 
life  which  wills  is  man  while  it  needs  man's  work 
and  life  for  teaching.  Work  teaches  firm  will. 
That  will  by  which  life  wider  wins  its  worth  forever 
is  man's  will  taught  by  the  work  and  life  of  man. 
When  life  has  found  the  firm  will  which  life  must 
find  before  Will  Higher  frees  it  from  earth, 
life  has  won  wider  work  and  higher  life.  The  pur- 
posed worth  of  life  man  finds  willing  for  work  and 
worth  of  man. 


Firm  Will  of  Man  7 

Work  purposed  to  be  life's  work  of  earth  man 
has.  The  life  which  works  well  in  man,  willing 
firmly  to  finish  that  work,  wins  by  that  work  done 
and  finished  well  the  firm  will  by  which  life  wider 
finishes  its  wider  work.  Help  for  life  the  work  of 
man  is  purposed  to  be.  Life  wins  firm  will  when 
man  has  won  it.  Then  man  finds  for  life  which 
must  work  wider  work  the  firm  will  by  which  life 
finishes  its  wider  work. 

The  work  which  man  has  is  willed  for  him  by  his 
Maker.  He  who  willed  worlds  to  be  man's  work- 
ing place  made  man  the  worker  who  finally  learns 
through  his  work.  The  life  works  in  man,  the  life 
immortal.  That  work  which  teaches  man,  then, 
teaches  life  itself.  What  would  man  be  without  his 
work?  The  dreamer  who  finds  no  worth.  Life 
of  man  works  by  God's  purpose,  for  man  is  made 
for  work.  His  man's  work  teaches  firm  will,  and 
by  firm  will  his  life  wins  the  wider  life  which  is  pur- 
posed for  life  immortal.  Man  wills  for  his  work 
himself,  yet  that  work  is  purposed  for  him  by  the 
Wilier  of  his  life.  Man  who  works  the  work  of  life 
immortal,  the  work  that  is  purposed  to  teach  life, 
wins  through  that  work  the  firm  will  by  which  the 
life  wins  freedom  from  man.  But  that  life  which 
works  in  man  on  earth  is  life  for  which  its  Wilier 
purposes  wider  life  and  wider  work.  Then  the 
life  which  works  in   man,  which  finds  firm  will 


8  Will  Higher  of  God 

through  man's  work,  fulfills  by  firm  will  the  purpose 
of  its  Maker  that  it  find  on  earth  worth  for  wider 
life.  Man  wins  that  worth  using  the  life's  free 
will,  and  the  free  will  given  to  man,  being  thus  well 
used,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  man 
life  of  personal  self.  Will  Higher  purposes  for 
life  to  which  He  wills  that  worth  of  life  which  per- 
mits wider  life,  and  the  free  will  which  He  gives  to 
man,  life  immortal,  fulfills  His  purpose. 

Man  who  works  the  life's  work  of  earth  is  by  that 
work  taught  firm  will.  Man  himself  finds  by  the 
work  which  is  purposed  for  teaching  the  firm  will 
which  life  on  earth  must.  But  life  is  many  men. 
The  life  which  finally  wins  the  purposed  firm  will 
may  be  weak  for  many  incarnations.  Yet  life  for 
which  firm  will  is  purposed  must  finally  find  firm 
will.  The  life  of  man  which  wins  wider  life  by 
God's  purpose  lives  the  man's  life  willing  by  free 
will;  yet  finally  it  learns  wise  free  will,  and  that  wise 
free  will,  firmly  used,  fulfills  God's  purpose  that  life 
find  worth  for  wider  life. 

What  will  has  man?  The  free  will  which  life 
t  a  Ices  to  wider  life.  Then  by  that  will  life  in  man 
finds  the  worth  for  wider  life.  What  worth  frees 
life?  Worth  found  by  man.  Then  man  finds  the 
worth  that  wins  for  life  immortal  its  wider  life  of 
freedom   from  earth.     Yes,  will  free  wins  wider 


Firm  Will  of  Man  9 

life,  will  free  that  man  uses  now  must  forward  life 
toward  the  worth  that  God  purposes,  or  life  fulfills 
not  His  will.  Then  life  wins  not  its  freedom  from 
earth.  What  must  life  find  for  its  earth  worth 
then  ?  This : — worth  of  will  firm,  worth  of  purpose 
firm,  worth  of  work  well  finished.  Worth  that  man 
finds  his  life  finds,  and  that  life  find  wider  life  man 
wills  himself.  For  man  what  thought  for  help! 
He  who  reads  must  think. 

We  who,  with  the  man  who  writes  the  words  we 
tell,  would  help  men,  would  help  their  thought  of 
work.  The  work  which  man  has  we  know  is  the 
earth  work  of  the  life  which  wins  wider  life  when 
its  earth  work  is  finished.  Men  think  of  work  as 
for  earth  help  only.  We  know  it  helps  life  im- 
mortal. The  man  wills  for  that  work  using  the 
free  power  of  life  immortal.  Man  wills  for  his 
work  using  the  free  will  which  God  wills  to  he  help 
for  life  forever.  Man  is  that  life  which  wins  life 
wider.  Life  personal  man  is  made,  and  for  his 
work  he  uses  the  free  will  of  personal  self.  Then 
man  wins  by  his  free  will  work  better  of  life  freed. 
Work  purposed  to  be  teaching  man  has ;  that  work 
teaches  life  firm  will;  firm  free  will  wins  the  life 
wider  which  by  God's  purpose  the  life  personal 
must.  Work,  then,  which  man  thinks  helps  but 
earth  life,  is  help  for  life  forever. 


10  Will  Higher  of  God 

Bishop  Wilberforce. 

The  work  which  man  has,  work  which  is  purposed 
for  teaching,  is  the  first  work  of  life  immortal. 
The  work  purposed  to  teach  man,  then,  teaches  life 
immortal.  That  work  which  is  by  Higher  Will 
purposed  for  teaching  will  teach  the  life  which  wills 
to  finish  well  man's  work.  Work  for  life  is  willed 
that  life  find  help  through  its  teaching.  Man's 
work  is  first  work  of  life  immortal. 

Will  which  life  uses  in  man  is  the  will  which  life 
will  forever  use.  Will  which  life  finds  help  in  the 
wider  life  must  be  found  by  that  life  in  man.  Then 
man  must  work  well  the  life's  work,  for  through 
that  work  he  finds  the  will  which  helps  life  wider. 
Work  purposed  to  teach  life  man  has.  That  work 
teaches  finally  by  God's  purpose.  But  life  in  man 
may  will  that  work  ill  finished.  Then  while  man 
works  using  life's  will  he  wills  that  life  find  wider 
life,  or  that  life  remain  man.  Purposed  work 
teaches  finally,  for  that  which  Will  Higher  wills  life 
finally  fulfills.  But  the  man  who  incarnates  life 
this  time  may  will  well  or  ill,  for  life  of  man  is  free 
in  will.  What  work  has  life  when  man  wills 
weakly?  Further  man's  work.  Life  which  wills 
to  finish  well  the  man's  work  wins  the  firm  will  which 
helps  in  wider  work.  When  will  is  weakly  used 
life  wins  but  further  work  of  man.  Then  for  the 
work  of  daily  life  man  must  will  firmly.     Self  finds 


Firm  Will  of  Man  11 

in  man  the  will  which  helps  life  wider  by  man's  own 
choice. 

Work  willed  for  man  life  finishes  in  man;  but 
that  work  God  wills  for  life  of  man  as  teaching  for 
wider  work.  Free  in  will  man  is,  yet  Will  Higher 
purposes  for  life  wider  work  than  that  of  man. 
For  wider  work  man  wills  then  when  he  wills  his 
man's  work  well  finished.  Life  wins  life  wider  then 
on  earth.  Will  firm  must  win  the  wider  life.  Man 
wins  the  wider  life  that  by  Higher  Will  life  must, 
working  the  man's  work  well,  using  for  that  work 
man's  free  will,  making  firm  for  worth  the  free  will 
which  by  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  man  has  as 
life  immortal.  Work  of  man  teaches  free  will,  for 
work  that  life  has  on  earth  is  by  the  Will  Higher 
purposed  for  teaching.  Man  wins  wider  work 
taught  by  life's  work  of  earth. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  that  life  work 
man's  work.  When  the  life  is  by  that  work  taught 
firm  use  of  free  will,  life  has  learned  that  which  work 
is  purposed  to  teach.  Purposed  work  of  man 
teaches  life  for  which  worth  is  willed.  Taught  by 
the  willed  work  of  man,  life  of  personal  self  wrins  by 
free  will  its  worth  for  wider  life.  Firm  will  work 
teaches,  and  that  which  life  must  of  its  free  wTill  find 
life  finds  by  help  of  the  free  will  taught  firmness  in 
the  work  of  man. 

Work  which  man  is  willed,  purposed  for  teaching 


12  Will  Higher  of  God 

of  life  immortal,  is  willed  to  be  the  earth  work  of 
life  immortal.  That  work  which  by  the  purpose  of 
Will  Higher  life  works  in  man  will  teach  life,  then, 
of  necessity.  But  free  the  will  of  life  is,  and  that 
free  will  of  necessity  wills  for  that  work  which  must 
teach.  What  will  does  life  use  in  man?  The  free 
will  of  personal  self.  Then  by  free  will  man  works 
the  work  which  is  purposed  to  teach.  Why  may 
life  which  is  purposed  work  for  teaching  will  for 
that  work  well  or  weakly?  Personal  self  life  is; 
will  free  of  personal  self  it  has.  Life  personal  is 
by  that  work  which  Will  Higher  purposes  taught 
wise  use  of  free  will ;  and  the  free  will  taught  as  the 
Will  Higher  purposes  it  shall  be  taught,  brings  to 
life  the  worth  which  life  is  purposed  to  find.  Work 
then  teaches  wise  use  of  free  will.  Thus  man,  who 
works  life's  work  and  uses  life's  free  will,  finally 
works  well,  finally  uses  free  will  worthily,  and  the 
purpose  for  which  work  is  willed  that  work  fulfills. 
Will  that  man  has  is  life's  free  will.  That  will 
life  uses  in  you,  the  man.  Why  use  it  ill,  you  who 
would  find  wider  life  ?  You  work  that  life  find  will 
firm.  Why  use  will  weakly  in  work?  Man  must 
find  firm  will  that  life  find  freedom.  Think  well, 
man  who  works  to-day.  Will  firm  man  finds 
through  work  well  finished;  will  firm  life  thus  finds. 
Man  wills  for  his  work  that  it  be  well  or  ill  finished 
as  he  chooses;  but  work  must  teach  firm  will  by 


Firm  Will  of  Man  13 

God's  purpose.  Will  firm  won,  life  finds  freedom. 
Why  work  weakly  then,  O  man? 

Man  finds  through  the  teaching  of  work  his  firm 
will;  his  life  has  won  firm  will  then,  and  that  will 
finishes  well  life's  work  of  earth  through  which  life 
is  prepared  for  the  wider  work  of  life  freed.  Will 
firm  helps  life  forever.  By  man's  life  the  free  per- 
sonal self  must  win  the  firm  will  that  helps  life  while 
it  is. 

Will  firm  life  first  finds  in  man.  That  will  God 
purposes  that  life  shall  find  in  man.  Who  may 
forbid  His  purpose?  Yet  He  makes  life's  will 
wholly  free.  His  purpose  then  must  be  carried  out 
by  the  free  will  which  He  gives.  For  life  man  wills. 
His  will  is  by  life's  work  taught  until  he  wills  well. 
Man  wills  well  finally?  Yes,  man,  for  that  man 
who  is  life  taught  by  life's  work  of  earth  knows  that 
life  wins  worth  only  by  firm  free  will.  Man  then, 
who  is  life  working  that  work  which  Will  Higher 
gives  to  him,  wins  for  life  that  firm  will  which  life 
must. 

The  will  which  man  uses  firmly  wins  the  worth 
that  life  by  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  wins  on 
earth.  Finally  will  free  life  personal  uses  well,  for 
thus  life's  Maker  wills.  But  man  finds  the  firm 
will  himself  that  life  must  find  before  Will  Higher 
frees  it  from  earth.  Then  why  will  weakly,  man  of 
earth?     Would    life    win    freedom    through    w< 


14  Will  Higher  of  God 

will?  Man  thinks  his  work  helps  but  life  of  earth. 
We  know  that  through  the  work  of  man  life  finds 
the  firm  will  it  takes  to  wider  life. 

Will  Higher  wills  that  life  in  man  find  worth 
for  higher  life.  The  will  which  man  uses  to  win 
the  purposed  worth  is  life's  free  will.  Man  wins 
his  wrorth  by  free  choice.  When  life  makes  right 
choice,  when  it  has  learned  the  lesson  which  Will 
Higher  wills  it  must,  that  firm  will  it  must  use  in 
winning  its  worth,  self  wins  fuller  life.  Work 
teaches  free  will.  Man  finds  the  worth  which  life 
must  using  the  free  will  taught  firmness  by  the 
work  he  knows.  His  life  then  has  found  the  firm 
will  which  by  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will  it  must 
find  on  earth.  Taught  by  man's  work  life  for 
which  firm  will  is  purposed  finds  that  firm  will. 
Each  life  finds  it  finally.  Work  then  teaches  that 
which  life  finds  help  while  it  is.  Man  who  works, 
find  help  from  this  word.  Will  Higher  wills  for 
life  while  life  is;  but  life's  will  He  makes  free. 
When  life  wins  by  its  worth  found  in  man  the  wider 
life  of  freedom  from  earth,  better  life  begins  for 
self.  The  firm  will  found  in  man  wins  for  life  freed 
its  worth.  The  will  man  uses  is  life's  free  will. 
Then  wider  life  wins  wider  worth  to  immortality  by 
the  firm  will  man  finds  himself.  Think  well,  man 
who  uses  life's  free  will. 

Will  for  work  life  finds  by  work  finished  well,  for 


Firm   Will  of  Man  15 

finished  work  wins  firm  free  will.  Man  finds  firm 
will  through  the  teaching  of  work;  his  life  wills 
that  which  he  wills;  then  when  man  wills  to  finish 
that  work  which  his  life  has  for  teaching,  he  finds 
for  life  the  firm  will  that  life  takes  to  freedom  from 
earth.  Wise  life  hecomes  through  the  teaching  of 
work.  Help  work  becomes  when  the  man  finishes 
it  well.  Then  man  who  wills  firmly  for  his  work 
finds  the  firm  will  by  which  life  frees  itself  from 
earth.  Heed  the  word,  man  who  works  earth  work. 
That  work  which  man  has  is  the  work  for  earth 
of  life  immortal.  The  work  of  life  immortal, 
whether  it  is  work  on  earth  or  the  work  of  wider 
life,  is  by  the  life's  Maker  purposed  to  teach  the 
life.  Willed  to  be  man  for  earth  life,  willed  then 
the  work  which  life  of  man  has,  the  life  for  which 
Higher  Will  purposes  will  by  that  work  be  taught, 
for  thus  life's  Maker  wills.  While  life  works  the 
work  of  man  it  learns  firm  will,  firm  purpose. 
Those  willed  powers  life  uses  in  man  and  forever. 
Then  they  are  by  the  man's  work  taught.  While 
that  follows,  it  must  be  said  that  work  will  not  al- 
ways teach  because  life  of  man  is  made  life  of  free 
will,  which  free  will  it  may  use  well  or  ill.  Then 
when  the  life  works  well,  using  well  the  will  and 
purpose  by  which  work  is  finished  well,  the  life  wins 
readiness  for  wider  life  and  wider  work.  But  if 
life  wills  to  work  ill,  using  purpose  and  will  weakly, 


16  Will  Higher  of  God 

that  life  remains  a  worker  of  man's  work.  Then 
that  which  God  purposes  to  be  well  used  is  ill  used, 
and  life  which  is  willed  finally  to  find  the  wider  life 
of  freedom  wins  but  another  life  of  man.  Why 
then  let  life  work  weakly,  man  to  whom  your  Maker 
gives  will  and  purpose?     Think  well. 

What  is  life  that  wills?  The  life  willed  from  the 
creation  of  the  Universe  man  is.  Is  life  willed 
worth  beyond  man's  worth?  We  know  it  is  willed 
that  worth.  How  does  life  win  that  worth?  By 
firm  will  for  worth  used  in  man.  Is  life  willed 
worth  forced?  Man  has  free  will.  How  will  man 
find  the  worth  which  is  willed?  By  free  will  his 
own.  Then  man  wills  using  free  choice  the  worth 
which  was  from  the  creation  willed  for  life  im- 
mortal. 

Man  wins,  then,  the  firm  will  that  life  takes  to 
life  higher.  That  worth  which  life  in  man  finds  by 
firm  will  life  takes  to  life  higher.  Help  men  to  will 
for  this  life,  we  pray  Thee,  our  Father. 

Miltiades. 
Man  works  by  the  purpose  of  his  Maker.  His 
will  helps  in  his  work  by  that  purpose.  His  purpose 
won  through  man's  life  will  be  purpose  of  life  freed. 
Man  wills  as  life  purposed  worth  won  through  the 
teaching  of  work,  and  life  worthy  he  finds  by  the 
help  of  firm  will  won  by  work  well  finished.     Won 


Firm  Will  of  Man  17 

by  man  must  be  the  firm  will,  the  firm  purpose  which 
life  takes  when  freed  to  wider  life  and  work. 

Then  think,  who  work  man's  work.  You  live 
working  for  wider  life.  Will  firm  that  you  find 
through  work  finished  will  help  life  in  its  wider  life. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  life's  Maker,  wills  that  life 
win  wider  work  through  work  of  man.  Will 
Higher  wills  that  man's  work  be  life's  work  for 
earth.  By  His  purpose  that  work  teaches  free  will. 
Thus  life  wins  wider  work  by  free  will  taught  by 
man's  work. 

Work  purposed  for  teaching  man  is  willed. 
Man's  life  is  purposed  worth  won  by  firm  will  free. 
That  firm  free  will  man  finds  through  work  well 
finished.  Then  work  purposed  teaches  firm  will  by 
which  life  finds  the  worth  which  Will  Higher  pur- 
poses. We  who  would  teach  men  wisdom  tell  that 
work  willed  for  man's  life  will  teach  if  man  will 
have  the  teaching.  Why  work  weakly,  man  who 
works  life's  work? 

Work  purposed  to  teach  life  man  has;  will  pur- 
posed to  win  freedom  man  has;  man  is  life  which 
finds  worth  purposed  using  will  free.  Life  must 
find  free  will  its  help.  Man  finds  his  worth  him- 
self. That  worth,  purposed  though  it  be  by  Will 
Higher,  must  by  man  himself  be  found.  We  tell 
that  which  will  help  men  who  will  think. 

When  man  wills  life  wills.     Then  firm  will  life 


18  Will  Higher  of  God 

finds  as  man.  By  will  firm  life  finds  freedom  from 
man,  yet  finds  that  firm  will  in  man.  Work  teaches 
life  which  must,  by  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher, 
find  firm  will.  That  firm  will  life  finds  help  while 
it  is.  Man  wins  for  life  immortal  the  firm  will 
which  helps  that  life  forever. 

Will  firm  life  finds  through  the  man's  life  of 
earth.  Man  is  that  life  which  finds  firm  will. 
Would  his  work  teach  him  that  will?  Yes,  for 
work  of  life  on  earth  Will  Higher  purposes  to  teach 
firm  will  free.  The  firm  will  free  won  through 
work  well  finished  of  man  helps  to  win  for  life  its 
worth.  Would  life  forced  find  worth?  No.  Will 
for  worth  is  free  will  used  well.  Man  knows  that 
will  free  is  not  forced.  But  Will  Higher  purposes 
for  life  that  it  find  will  for  worth  in  man.  Man 
finds  firm  will  through  work  well  finished ;  worth  is 
won  by  free  will  well  and  firmly  used.  Think,  man 
of  free  will. 

Will  for  worth  life  finds  in  man,  for  thus  God 
purposes.  But  why  may  that  will  which  is  by  God's 
purpose  finally  to  be  well  and  firmly  used,  be  weak? 
For  the  life  of  man  He  wills  personal  self ;  with  free 
will  He  endows  life  of  self;  and  for  that  life  which 
He  wills  to  be  free  personal  self  He  purposes  free- 
dom and  wider  life  than  that  of  man.  Wider  life  is 
won  through  the  life  worthy  of  man.  Will  free 
makes  life  worthy  finally,  though  life,  being  per- 


Firm  Will  of  Man  19 

sonal  self,  may  choose  weakness  for  this  life  of  man. 
Yet  worth  life  in  man  must  find  finally,  for  thus 
Will  Higher  wills.  Then  weak  will  God  permits, 
but  purposes  that  finally  weak  will  be  made  firm 
will  by  life  in  man.  Work  is  purposed  to  teach  will 
free.  That  will  made  firm  through  work  wins  the 
worth  of  life.  Man  finds  through  will  for  work 
well  finished  the  firm  will  which  wins  for  life  its 
worth  forever.  Man  who  works  to-day,  find  firm 
will  you  may.     Think. 

Will  free  man  has,  and  by  will  free  he  wins  free- 
dom for  his  life.  Will  free  must  be  made  will  firm 
then  by  man,  for  that  will  wins  the  freedom  man's 
Maker  purposes  that  life  shall  find.  Man  wills  of 
his  own  choice  whether  he  works  firmly  or  weakly. 
Why  will  weakly,  O  man?  The  life  must  be  freed, 
for  thus  Will  Higher  purposes.  You  win  by  your 
work,  if  you  choose,  the  will  firm  by  which  life  finds 
freedom. 

The  life  that  works  man's  work  wins  worth  for 
wider  work.  The  life  that  wills  man's  life  worthy 
wins  help  for  wider  worth.  When  life  has  found 
the  worth  purposed,  it  has  won  wider  life.  Man 
wins  that  worth  himself.  Will  that  man  uses 
firmly,  will  that  helps  life  in  man,  will  that  life  takes 
to  wider  life,  man  finds  bjr  the  teaching  which  God 
wills  that  man  have,  the  teaching  of  work. 

Will  Higher,  the  Will  who  rules  life  forever, 


20  Will  Higher  of  God 

makes  life  for  earth  man.  His  will  follows  life 
while  it  is.  Man  works  because  He  wills.  Life 
finds  freedom  because  He  wills.  All  that  is  fulfills 
His  will.  Purpose  of  Will  Higher  that  follows 
life  to  eternity  makes  that  life  worthy  His  presence 
finally.  The  life  which  man  knows  prepares  for 
the  wider  life.  Will  Higher  wills  that  life  find 
first  worth  by  life  of  earth.  That  first  worth  wins 
for  life  freedom  from  earth.  Wider  life,  freed 
from  man,  wills  its  worth  by  the  firm  will  found  by 
man.     Think,  man  of  weak  will,  think  well. 

The  will  of  Him  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is 
makes  that  life  free  in  will.  But  His  purpose  that 
life,  though  free  in  will,  fulfills.  By  that  free 
power  the  life  made  personal  self  wins  the  wider 
life  which  its  Maker  purposes.  Man  who  works  his 
man's  work  is  life  for  which  life  wider,  work  better 
is  purposed.  Man  must  win  that  wider  life  using 
his  free  power.  Will  that  makes  life  worthy  life 
finds  by  the  teaching  of  man's  work  and  life.  Why 
then  waste  time,  you  who  work  for  life?  Why 
weaken  in  will  to  live  worthily?  You  yourself 
must  win  the  freedom  which  your  Maker  purposes 
for  life  personal.  The  firm  will  which  frees  life 
man  must  find.  That  firm  will  man  finds  by  God's 
purpose,  but  he  finds  it  himself.  Why  wait  then, 
man  who  has  free  will? 

The  man  who  works  man's  work  willing  for  that 


Firm  Will  of  Man  21 

work  firmly,  wins  for  life  itself  firm  will.  Will 
firmly  used  in  the  work  of  man  wins  firm  will  for 
life  which  has  further  work  to  finish  in  life  wider. 
Work  is  purposed  to  be  help  to  life.  Then  when 
will  is  firmly  used  by  the  man  who  works,  his  life 
finds  help. 

Will  for  worth  of  life,  firm  will  that  helps  life, 
man  finds,  for  by  his  worth  life  wins  its  fuller  life. 
That  which  the  higher  will  of  life's  Maker  purposes 
for  life,  freedom  from  earth,  is  won  by  the  firm  will 
found  by  life  in  man. 

That  firm  will  by  which  life  wins  the  freedom 
which  Will  Higher  purposes  is  found  by  life  in  man. 
That  firm  will  man  finds  through  work  finished 
well.  Then  life  for  which  God  purposes  firm  will 
finds  it  by  the  teaching  of  work. 


WILL   FOR    LIFE   WORTHY 

Dr.  Coulter. 
Man  with  life  immortal  is  endowed.  By  the  pur- 
pose of  Higher  Will  life  must  find  worth.  Man 
wins  that  worth  by  his  own  will.  Then  man  who 
wills  by  will  free  fulfills  finally  the  purpose  of  his 
Maker.  For  life  worthy  man  finally  wills,  for  thus 
God  purposes. 


22  Will  Higher  of  God 

Man,  the  life  whose  will  is  free,  has  that  will  from 
his  Maker.  Will  firm  life  finds  while  it  is  man; 
thus  life's  Maker  wills.  Man  wills  his  worth  using 
the  will  which  life  will  forever  use.  Man  wins  the 
worth  which  frees  life  through  wise  use  of  his  free 
will.  Man  finds  the  firm  will  for  worth  by  which 
life  immortal  wins  its  worth  forever. 

Man  wills  his  worth  as  life  purposed  life  wider 
and  worth  higher  than  that  of  man.  Will  free  he 
uses,  for  life  must  find  worth  for  itself.  The  wise 
purpose  of  Will  Higher  wills  that  man  be  self  per- 
sonal. Then  life  of  self  by  His  will  finds  by  free 
will  its  worth.  Made  life  of  man,  willed  wider, 
fuller  life  than  that  of  earth,  self  immortal  finds  by 
the  life  in  man  the  firm  will  for  worth  which  God 
purposes  shall  make  life  worthy  to  immortality. 
Wide  life  will  be  when  freed  from  man,  wide  its 
thought,  wide  its  purpose.  Man  but  begins  life's 
work  and,  by  the  way  God  purposes,  the  work  and 
life  of  man,  life  immortal  wins  its  will  for  worth. 

Will  which  helps  man  helps  life,  for  man  is  the 
life  who  wills.  M  an  wills  as  life  for  which  life  wider 
is  purposed,  using  the  free  will  which  life 
will  use  while  it  is.  Man  finds  the  worth  which  life 
in  man  must,  using  life's  free  will.  Will  free  which 
man  has  is  willed  power.  When  by  willed  power 
life  finds  purposed  worth,  Will  Higher  wills  for 
that  life  freedom,  wider  work,  and  fuller  life.     Will 


Will  For  Life  Worihij  23 

free  man  has,  the  life's  free  will.  When  by  life's 
free  will  man  finds  the  worth  which  God  purposes 
that  life  personal  shall  find  on  earth,  He  who  wills 
for  life  while  it  is  frees  life  personal  from  man's  life 
and  work.  Will  free  man  uses  as  he  chooses;  yet 
when  taught  by  the  willed  life  in  man,  life  immortal 
chooses  worth.  Will  free  man  knows  he  has;  then 
will  free  he  knows  he  must  use  in  work,  and  for 
worth.  By  the  will  which  man  has,  life's  free  will, 
life  personal,  the  life  which  is  purposed  wider  life, 
finds  the  worth  which  brings  wider  life.  Help  the 
work  of  man  is  by  Will  Higher  purposed  to  be. 
Man  works  that  work  which  Will  Higher  wills 
shall  finally  teach  life,  and  by  the  willed  teaching 
which  life  has  in  man  life  purposed  worth  finds  will 
to  win  that  worth. 

With  life  immortal  the  Will  Higher  wills  that 
man  work  on  earth.  His  will  for  life  immortal  is 
that  finally  the  life  find  wider  life.  When  the 
worth  purposed  by  life's  Maker  is  by  man  found, 
He  translates  that  life  to  wider  life.  When  man 
wins  freedom  he  wins  freedom  for  life  immortal. 
Well  has  man  worked,  well  has  life  willed  when 
freedom  is  found.  Man  lives  earth  life  preparing 
that  life  immortal  find  wider  life.  Won  by  man 
who  wills  his  own  life  worthy  is  life  freed. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  in  man.  That  will 
made  firm  wins  life's  worth  forever.     Man  finds 


24  Will  Higher  of  God 

first  worth  of  life.  That  first  worth  begins  the 
worthy  life  immortal.  While  life  wills  it  uses  free 
will.  Man  uses  free  will  to  find  the  worth  that  frees 
life  from  earth,  but  that  worth  is  purposed  by  life's 
Maker.  Then  man,  who  wills  worth  or  unworth- 
iness  with  free  will,  man  who  lives  life  worthy  if  he 
chooses,  wins  by  life  worthy  the  higher  life  of  free- 
dom. 

Life  worthy  man  will  find  when  for  life  worthy 
he  purposes  firmly.  That  worth  which  man  wins 
through  use  of  firm  purpose  is  won  by  personal  life. 
Will  of  personal  life  wins  for  life  which  is  by  God 
purposed  worth,  that  purposed  worth.  Man  is  life 
of  free  purpose;  his  life  wins  the  worth  he  wins; 
his  life  wins  that  worth  by  his  free  choice;  but  that 
purpose  which  man  has  is  willed  to  be  the  power 
o£  his  life  immortal.  When  man  uses  firmly 
the  purpose  which  is  willed  to  help  life  forever  he 
finds  worth  which  frees  life  from  man.  Will  for 
life  worthy  then  helps  life  of  man.  That  worth 
which  life  wins  in  man  helps  the  freed  life.  When 
life  has  found  freedom  life  wills  still  with  the  free 
power  it  used  in  man.  And  life  purposed  worth 
finds  the  purposed  worth  while  it  is,  using  the  free 
power  of  life  personal.  Wise  life  becomes  through 
the  teaching  Will  Higher  purposes.  Man,  the  life 
of  earth,  wins  wisdom  through  that  teaching  which 
permits  life  the  wider,  fuller  life,  yet  man  finds  the 


Will  For  Life  Worthy  25 

worth  for  fuller  life  by  his  own  choice.  Purposed 
life  worthy,  helped  by  the  Will  who  made  life  per- 
sonal self,  that  life  wins  worth  to  eternity  using  life's 
wise  free  will.  God  purposes,  and  life  fulfills  His 
purpose. 

We  who  have  won  this  wider  life,  who  would  win 
lives  of  men  to  the  will  for  worth  which  helps  to 
bring  this  life,  have  found  the  will  for  life  wider 
which  God  purposes  that  life  shall  find.  We  live 
willing  for  wider  and  wider  life.  The  worth  of  life 
which  man  finds  using  his  free  will  brings  for  life 
the  will  for  life  worthy  that  wins  for  life  freed  its 
wider  and  wider  life.  Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds 
in  man  by  God's  purpose.  That  will  life  freed 
holds  while  it  is.  What  thought  for  help  there! 
Man  who  wills  firmly  that  his  life  be  worthy  wills 
that  life  find  worth  for  the  presence  of  its  Maker. 
The  will  for  worth  that  life  finds  first  in  man  brings 
finally  the  worth  that  permits  life  to  be  with  God. 

Wilberforce. 
Man  was  willed  his  life  of  earth.  Through  that 
life  and  the  work  which  Will  Higher  gives,  man  the 
life  of  personal  self  finds  the  firm  will  for  worth 
which  God  purposes  that  life  shall  find  before  He 
frees  it  from  earth.  Well  then  must  man  work, 
well  must  he  will,  that  life  find  quickly  the  firm  will 
which  makes  life  worthy. 


26  Will  Higher  of  God 

Man  must  find  firm  will  for  worth  of  life  before 
life  finds  freedom.  Why  then  use  will  weakly,  O 
man?  You  find,  if  you  will,  the  worth  that  frees 
immortal  life.  Then  will  for  worthy  life  to-day, 
man  who  has  life  to  free.     Think  well. 

Man  who  is  life  wills  for  that  life  its  worth  for 
earth.  Man  who  is  life  finally  finds  for  that  life  the 
will  for  worth  that  Will  Higher  purposes.  Will 
firm  wins  for  life  its  worth.  That  firm  will  each 
man  must  find?  No,  life  is  free  in  will.  God  pur- 
poses will  firm,  yet  makes  life  personal  self.  When 
life  wins  will  firm  of  its  own  free  choice  it  has  found 
the  will  that  frees.  For  that  will  work,  man  of 
earth. 

Man  wills  his  worth  of  free  will,  but  the  Will 
Higher  purposes  that  life  find  worth  using  that  free 
will.  Life  wins  for  itself  that  which  of  God's  pur- 
pose it  must,  working  the  man's  work,  using  for 
teaching  the  man's  life.  Self  immortal  finds  finally 
the  worth  that  by  God's  purpose  brings  wider,  fuller 
life.  Will  which  life  finds  through  the  life  of  man 
wins  for  life  immortal  its  worth  to  eternity. 

The  will  for  life  worthy  must  be  won  by  man. 
Why  then  may  will  which  is  purposed  to  be  made 
firm  be  weakly  used  by  life  in  man?  Will  for  life 
personal  is  free.  When  that  free  will  is  by  man 
made  firm  for  work  and  for  life  worthy,  life  per- 
sonal wins  wider  work  and  wider  life. 


Will  For  Life  Worthy  27 

Will  for  life  worthy  found  by  man  life  takes  to 
wider  life.  Will  that  man  makes  firm  life  takes  to 
life  wider.  Then,  man  who  wills,  you  make  life 
worthy  freedom.     Think. 

The  will  for  life  worthy  which  man  finds  by  his 
firm  use  of  free  will  life  takes  to  wider,  fuller  life. 
Wise  the  man  who  wills  that  his  daily  life  be  worthy. 
Thus  he  wins  the  firm  will  for  worth.  The  life 
worthy  finds  wider  life,  but  the  life  weak  and  un- 
worthy remains  the  worker  of  man's  work.  Heed 
the  word,  man  of  weak  will. 

The  life  who  finds  worth  through  firm  will  in  man 
wins  the  wider  life.  That  firm  purpose  which  life 
learns  through  free  will  well  used  life  takes  to  its 
fuller  life.  Man  finds  the  firm  purpose  through 
which  life  wins  fuller  life.  His  firm  purpose  wins 
the  life  worthy.  That  firm  purpose  helps  life  while 
it  works  the  higher  work  of  life  freed.  Think,  man 
of  earth,  think  wisely. 

Miltiades. 
Will  for  life  worthy  man  wins  finally,  for  he  is 
life  that  wins  freedom  by  life  worthy.  His  will, 
free  for  worth  or  unworthiness,  man  has  from  his 
Maker.  Then  weak  use  of  free  will  life's  Maker 
permits.  For  that  which  He  purposes  that  life 
shall  find  in  man  He  permits  life  to  will  well  or 
weakly,  for  life  made  man  is  personal  self.     Then 


28  Will  Higher  of  God 

weakness  He  purposes?  Will  free  may  by  His 
purpose  be  weak?  Why  that  thought?  He  made 
life  personal  self;  then  the  power  which  He  gives 
to  man  he  uses  well  or  weakly  by  his  own  choice. 
Will  free  man  finds  is  firm  will  free  when  his  life  has 
learned  through  the  teaching  Will  Higher  wills. 
Free  will  used  well  teaches;  for  free  will  used  un- 
worthily life  finds  penalty. 

Man  who  works  life's  earth  work,  man  who  wins 
life's  worth  that  frees  from  earth,  is  life  for  which 
the  Will  Higher  purposes  forever.  Then  man  must 
find  the  worth  which  frees,  and,  being  life  personal 
whose  will  is  free,  man  must  find  that  worth  of  his 
own  free  will.  Man  then,  who  must  win  for  life  the 
worth  which  frees,  finds  that  worth  himself.  Why 
then  weaken  in  will  for  life  worthy,  man  of  earth  ? 


3 

WORTH    OF   LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 
Will  Higher,  who  made  life  that  wills,  made 
life  self.  Man,  the  life  willed  selfhood,  is  life 
which  is  purposed  wider  life  in  freedom  from 
worlds.  Man,  being  self,  wills  that  which  he 
chooses.  Will  free  man  has,  being  personal  life. 
Then  will  free  must  fulfill  the  purpose  for  which 


Worth  of  Life  29 

God  gives  it.  Will  for  worth  is  will  free  well  used. 
Man  wills  for  life  the  worth  which  Purpose  Higher 
wills,  using  his  will  free.  Man  the  life  wins  free- 
dom through  wise  use  of  free  will.  Worth  pur- 
posed, worth  that  life  wins  hy  free  will,  life  takes 
to  personal  wider  life.  Will  free  life  uses  while  it 
is.  Man  who  has  his  life  from  God  wins  worth  for 
the  wider  life  purposed  by  God  using  the  free  will 
which  God  makes  his  power.  Man  wins  the  wider 
life  himself  willing  his  man's  life  well  and  worthily 
lived.  Man  uses  the  will  which  life  uses  while  it  is. 
Personal  life  of  self  wins  that  which  Will  Higher 
purposes  using  personal  will.  Free  while  life  is 
the  will  is ;  but  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  life  ful- 
fills. Will  free  purposed  to  be  help  man  has.  The 
purpose  for  which  life  is  made  personal  will  free 
fulfills.  Man,  free  in  will,  wills  for  life  immortal 
the  worth  which  life  purposed  wider  life  must  find 
on  earth.  Will  free  then  wins  freedom;  will  free 
wins  wider  life.  Worth  of  life  man  finds  using  his 
will  free. 

Man  is  purposed  the  worth  that  frees  life  from 
man.  That  worth  found  by  man  is  the  worth  of  life 
immortal.  The  freedom  which  life  wins  is  by  man 
won.  The  man  wills  as  life  to  which  is  purposed 
worth,  and  that  worth  is  won  of  free  will.  Man 
who  works  learns  the  wise  use  of  free  will.  That 
wise  use  wins  for  the  life  of  self  the  worth  for  wider 


30  Will  Higher  of  God 

life.  Man  finds  that  worth;  he  must,  for  he  is  the 
life  which  is  purposed  wider  life. 

Man  who  is  life  which  by  the  purpose  of  its  Maker 
wills  of  free  will  lives  man's  life  that  is  purposed  for 
teaching  firm  will.  That  life  win  worth  of  free  will 
the  Higher  Will  purposes;  that  life  win  by  man's 
free  will  the  worth  for  wider  life  He  who  willed  life 
purposes.  The  worth  He  purposes  must  by  free 
will  be  won.  Man  is  the  life  for  which  Higher 
Will  purposes  freedom  won  by  itself.  Then  will 
free  becomes  firm  will  free  because  He  purposes 
that  by  will  free  life  shall  win  its  worth.  Man  wills 
that  which  he  wishes,  but  his  wish  becomes  that  life 
find  worth  finally,  and  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will 
is  by  the  free  will  of  life  fulfilled. 

The  value  to  man's  life  of  the  help  from  work 
well  finished  man  knows,  but  he  thinks  that  work 
finished  helps  but  the  man's  life.  While  life  lasts 
work  finished  is  help.  Man  works  the  work  pur- 
posed to  teach  life  firm  will  and  purpose.  Worth 
of  life  is  won  by  wise  and  firm  use  of  the  will  and 
purpose  which  man  uses  in  his  daily  work.  Man 
who  works  the  work  of  earth,  willing  firmly  that  the 
work  be  finished  well,  learns  what  work  means. 
Then  his  life  has  learned  that  lesson.  Worth  of 
life  is  found  through  the  firm  will  which  life  learns 
through  man's  work  finished  well.     Then  the  value 


Worth  of  Life  31 

of  work  is  plain.  Purposed  by  life's  Maker  to 
work,  self  wills  for  that  work  of  free  will.  Then 
the  life  of  man,  which  is  personal  self,  wins  by  the 
firm  will  which  it  learns  through  man's  work  the 
worth  by  which  life  personal  wins  wider  life.  The 
purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  life  the  work  of  man 
is  by  that  work  fulfilled.  That  work  teaches  life 
the  firm  will  and  purpose  by  which  life  wins  its 
worth  for  wider  life. 

The  life  worthy  of  man  wins  for  the  life  im- 
mortal wider,  fuller,  worthier  life.  That  will 
which  He  who  wills  life  into  being  gives  to  that  life 
fulfills  the  higher  purpose  of  life's  Maker.  Free 
that  will  He  wills  to  be,  but  purposes  that  life  win 
by  that  will  the  life  worthy  of  man  which  prepares 
for  the  purposed  wider  life.  Then,  free  though 
will  of  life  be,  that  power  finally  fulfills  His  pur- 
pose who  wills  for  life  immortal.  Wise  life  be- 
comes through  the  teaching  which  Higher  Purpose 
wills  for  it  in  man.  That  wisdom  well  used  frees 
the  life  from  man.  Well  life  wills  finally  on  earth, 
for  the  life  willed  freedom  by  its  Maker  finds  that 
freedom  surely. 

Life  finds  its  first  worth  in  man.  Why  then  let 
will  for  worth  be  weak?  Each  life  must  find  the 
worth  that  frees.  Will  free  each  life  must  use  in 
finding  that  worth.     Man  who  wills  for  life,  think. 


32  Will  Higher  of  God 

Man  who  is  life  immortal  works  on  earth  the 
work  willed  for  teaching  of  life  immortal.  That 
worth  which  He  who  willed  life  to  be  purposes  is 
won  by  the  firm  will  that  life  learns  through  work. 
The  work  which  man  has  is  purposed  to  help  life 
immortal.  Life  finds  firm  will  when  man  finds  it. 
That  which  work  of  man  is  purposed  to  teach  it 
does  finally  teach.  The  work  willed  for  man 
teaches  life,  and  the  will  firm  won  by  man  life  has 
won.  Then  why  let  will  weaken  in  the  work  of  life, 
man  of  earth  ?     Think  well ! 

The  life  that  wins  first  worth  in  man  wins  that 
worth  by  God's  purpose.  His  purpose  that  life 
find  worth  the  life  fulfills  by  its  use  of  firm  free 
will.  That  worth  which  life  finds  in  man  frees  life 
from  earth.  What  worth  must  life  find  to  win 
freedom?  Worth  which  life  knows  it  wills 
itself.  That  worth  brings  freedom.  Then  that 
life  which  thus  finds  freedom  has  won  the  firm  will 
for  life  worthy  that  life  uses  for  its  wider  worth. 
God's  purpose  follows  life  while  it  is.  His  purpose 
frees  life  from  man;  His  purpose  frees  life  from 
weak  will;  by  His  purpose  life  finds  wider  and  wider 
worth  of  its  free  will;  His  purpose  is  that  life  finally 
win  of  free  will  the  worth  that  fits  life  for  His  pres- 
ence. Then  the  free  will  which  is  man's  frees  life 
from  earth.  That  free  will  makes  life  finally 
worthy  the  very  presence  of  its  Maker. 


Worth  of  Life  33 

Wilberforce. 

Will  Higher  wills  that  finally  life  in  man  win 
worth  for  wider  life.  The  life  in  man  He  made  im- 
mortal self.  With  will  free  He  endows  life  of  self. 
We,  freed  lives,  were  men.  That  we  know  by 
memory  of  the  life  of  man.  We  were  freed  when 
God  willed.  We  tell  for  men  the  words  which  we 
hope  they  will  heed.  Life  wins  freedom  by  God's 
purpose,  but  life  wins  freedom  by  His  way,  free  will 
of  self  personal.  Think  well,  you  who  would  win 
freedom  and  wider  life. 

Life  wills  for  itself  the  worth  which  by  the  pur- 
pose of  Will  Higher  it  must  find.  When  for  it- 
self life  has  found  its  worth,  God  wills  it  wider  life. 
For  worth  will  free  man  must  use,  being  life  per- 
sonal, and  the  free  will  which  God  wills  to  life  per- 
sonal, must  fulfill  His  purpose  for  that  life.  Worth 
life  must  find  in  man.  Free  to  will  worth  or  weak- 
ness, life  personal  finds  will  free  is  help  finally. 
Then  by  will  its  own  life  finds  the  worth  that  frees. 
Think  well,  you  who  will  to-day  for  life  immortal. 

Man  works  the  work  that  by  the  purpose  of  God 
teaches  life.  His  will  for  work  he  makes  firm  by 
well-done  and  well-finished  work.  When  man 
works  well,  finishing  his  work,  he  wins  for  life  im- 
mortal the  firm  will  by  which  that  life  wins  its  free- 
dom. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  first  in  man.     That 


34  Will  Higher  of  God 

which  Higher  Will  purposes  that  life  shall  find  on 
earth,  man  finds.  The  worth  which  frees  life  from 
man  man  must  find,  then,  for  man  is  the  life  for 
which  worth  for  freedom  is  purposed.  When  man 
of  free  will  finds  that  worth,  life  personal  wins  the 
wider,  fuller  life.     Think,  man  who  wills  to-day. 

Will  Higher  was  when  life  which  He  made  was 
not.  For  life  which  He  made  He  wills  forever. 
Man  who  works  by  His  purpose,  who  lives  the  life 
of  work  because  He  wills,  is  life  for  which  wider 
work  is  purposed.  The  wide  powers  which  He 
makes  personal  powers  man  is  given.  By  wise  use 
of  all  those  powers  life  wins  the  worth  for  the  wider 
life  which  God  purposes  for  life  personal.  Man 
who  wills  by  free  will,  whose  purpose  is  free,  whose 
mind  he  uses  as  he  wishes,  must  become  by  the  wise 
use  of  all  those  powers  ready  for  wider  life,  or  he 
waits  for  freedom.  By  the  wise  use  that  life  must 
learn  the  life  purposed  wider  life  finds  the  worth  for 
wider  life.  Think,  who  would  win  that  wider  life. 
Your  own  powers  must  win  it.     Think  well. 

Man  wills  his  life  worthy  himself,  but  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  life  that  it  find  worth  in  man. 
Then  will  which  He  who  made  life  personal  self 
gives  to  man  must  win  that  worth  of  life  which  God 
purposes. 

Man  who  is  life  for  which  worth  is  purposed,  man 
who  wills  his  worth  himself,  works  the  work  which 


Worth  of  Life  35 

by  God's  purpose  teaches  free  will.  Then  his  worth 
is  won  by  free  will  taught.  We  who  have  won  the 
worth  which  brings  wider  life  would  help  men  to 
wise  thought.  May  the  word  help  many,  we  pray 
God. 

When  man  wills  that  his  life  be  worthy  his  life 
personal  thus  wills.  Man  by  his  free  purpose  be- 
comes life  worthy.  We  who  were  men  remember 
the  many  lives  of  man,  and  the  memory  helps  us. 
When  the  man  wills  his  life  worthy  life  personal 
wins  wider  life.  What  from  this  would  be  the 
thought?  Why  wait,  O  man,  to  will  your  life 
worthy?  The  life  of  self  you  are.  By  the  will  of 
life  personal,  your  own  will,  life  personal  finds  free- 
dom.    Think  well. 

Miltiades. 

Man  works  the  earth  work  purposed  to  be  teach- 
ing for  life.  Life  of  self  wills  for  that  work,  and 
wills  it  well  or  ill  finished  as  it  chooses.  Yet  life's 
Maker  purposes  that  the  earth  work  be  well  finished. 
Though  life  is  free,  Will  Higher  purposes  for  it. 
Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  using  the  free  will 
which  it  uses  for  work.  Man  wins  firm  will  using 
free  will  in  work.  God  wills  for  life  that  it  win 
firm  will  in  man.  Will  firm  frees  life  from  work 
of  man.  Will  firm  man  finds  through  the  purposed 
teaching  of  work.     That  firm  will  frees  life  from 


36  Will  Higher  of  God 

earth. 

Worth  life  must  find  in  man;  thus  Will  Higher 
wills.  The  will  of  life  made  personal  self  is  free, 
but  for  personal  life  Will  Higher  purposes  worth. 
Man  willing  his  own  life  worthy  makes  life  im- 
mortal worthy.  Will  Higher  wills  that  life  find 
firm  free  will  in  man.  Man  finds  that  firm  will 
finally.  That  firm  will  life  finds  for  itself.  Man, 
being  life  willed  worth,  and  being  life  personal  free 
in  will,  finds  the  purposed  worth  by  the  personal 
free  will.  The  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  life 
that  life  fulfills  by  will  its  own.  Will  Higher  wills 
for  life  while  it  is  man,  though  He  wills  that  it  be 
personal  self  free  in  will.  Will  free  man  has  by 
the  purpose  of  his  Maker.  His  will  free  he  must 
use  firmly  then,  for  thus,  and  thus  only,  will  he  win 
freedom  for  his  life  immortal.  Well  then  must  the 
man  will,  for  life  wins  freedom  when  will  for  worth 
is  firm. 

The  life  of  man  has  man's  work  to  finish  before  it 
wins  freedom.  Will  free  man  uses  to  finish  that 
work,  and  when  his  will  he  uses  well  life  finishes  that 
work  well.  But  man  works  weakly  many  times. 
Then  the  will  which  life  finds  is  weak,  and  life  wins 
not  freedom.  Will  firm  man  finds  himself.  By 
will  firm  life  finds  the  worth  for  wider  life.  Think, 
man  of  weak  will. 

The  life  which  for  earth  is  man  wills  there  for 


Worth  of  Life  37 

wider  life.  That  worth  which  frees  man  finds. 
His  life  wills  as  he  wills.  His  worth  is  life's  worth. 
His  life  personal  wins  the  worth  for  wider  life  of  his 
free  choice.     Think,  man  of  earth. 

The  life  which  works  well  its  man's  work,  finish- 
ing it  well,  wins  firm  will  and  purpose  by  which  life 
wins  in  wider  life  its  worth.  Will  firm,  purpose 
firm,  life  finds  first  through  the  teaching  of  man's 
work  on  earth.  When  life  has  won  that  firm  will, 
that  firm  purpose  which  God  purposes  for  life  of 
man,  He  translates  life  to  the  wider  life. 

Will  that  life  find  worth  man  finds  through  free 
will  wisely  used.  Firm  purpose  life  finds,  then, 
through  man's  free  choice.  Firm  purpose  frees 
life.  Worth  which  man  finds  through  wise  use  of 
firm  will  and  purpose  frees  life  personal  from  man. 
Think,  you  to  whom  God  wills  worth  which  you 
must  win  yourself.     Think  well. 

Man  wins  himself  that  worth  of  life  that  frees  life 
from  man.  That  will  which  he  uses,  being  his  for 
wise  use,  he  finally  uses  wisely.  His  firm  purpose 
helps  the  firm  will  that  wins  freedom.  Then  life 
for  which  its  Maker  wills  worth  finds  it  using  free 
will  and  purpose  firmly.  Think,  man  to  whom  your 
Maker  gives  those  powers ;  think  well. 

We,  the  lives  for  whom  firm  free  will  brought  this 
life,  would  help  those  who  will  heed  the  word  we 
tell.     Each  life  finally  finds  this  higher  life ;  but  for 


38  Will  Higher  of  God 

that  which  brings  this  life  the  life  which  is  man  must 
will  by  its  free  will.  Each  life  finds  this  life,  but 
will  free  must  win  it. 

Man  feels  faith  that  his  life  will  be  wider  beyond 
life  of  earth.  Freed  life  knows  it  is  wider.  Man 
wills  for  his  higher  life  by  free  purpose  his  own. 
Freed  life  wins  its  wider  life  using  the  firm  purpose 
found  in  the  fife  of  man.  Life  which  has  found 
in  man  firm  will  holds  that  firm  will  while  life  is. 


II 

PHILOSOPHY 


WISDOM    OF    MEN 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  man's  Maker,  pur- 
poses that  by  willed  thought  life  be 
led  to  wise  thinking.  First  willed 
thought  wise  for  man  is  that  of 
higher  power  than  himself.  From  first  willed 
thought  man  finds  his  further  wisdom.  From 
man's  first  wise  thought  must  come  the  philosophy 
that  is  help.  From  no  other  thought  may  men  find 
the  wisdom  which  Will  Higher  purposes  that  life  in 
man  shall  find. 


WILL   THAT    MADE   THE   UNIVERSE   RULES    IT 

Dr.  Coulter. 

Will  Higher  must  be  the  foundation  thought  for 

man's   philosophy.     That   will,   the   will   of   Him 

who  made  the  Universe,  was  when  the  Universe 

was  not.     His  will  rules  the  Universe  which  He 

41 


42  Will  Higher  of  God 

made.  Man  wills  by  His  will.  Life  wins  wider 
life  than  that  of  worlds  by  His  will.  Willed  life 
man  is,  made  world-dweller  while  life  prepares  for 
that  wider  life.  Will  who  made  the  Universe  rules 
it  while  by  His  will  it  is.  Men  must  for  philosophy 
hold  fast  this  truth. 

Will  Higher,  the  will  of  Him  who  made  the  Uni- 
verse, was  when  life  of  man  was  not.  He  wills  for 
life  that  it  be  man  on  earth.  He  wills  that  man 
work  the  work  willed  for  life  immortal  while  it  is 
man.  His  will  rules  life  immortal  while  it  is  man 
and  forever.  Man  wills  by  His  will.  Man  purposes 
by  His  will.  Man  is  made  life  that  wins  wider, 
fuller,  more  glorious  life.  Wider  work  comes  to 
life  that  has  worked  well  the  man's  work;  wider  life 
to  the  life  which  has  lived  well  the  man's  life.  While 
life  is  it  works,  while  life  is  it  wills  and  purposes, 
while  life  is  God  wills  for  it. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  life's  wilier,  was  be- 
fore life  was  made.  Upon  that  foundation  thought 
— life  was  by  Higher  Will  made,  must  be  builded 
man's  wisdom. 

The  worth  of  philosophy  depends  on  the  worth  of 
its  foundation  thought.  Wise  thinking  must  be 
founded  upon  the  thought  of  God,  man's  Maker, 
Wilier  of  his  Universe,  Will  Supreme  of  Omnipo- 
tence, who  purposes  for  that  which  He  made  while 
it    is.     Will    Higher   who    made    life    man,    Will 


Will  that  Made  the  Universe  Rules  It       43 

Higher  who  purposes  for  man,  Will  Higher  whose 
purpose  all  life  fulfills,  must  he  thought  for  wise 
philosophy.  With  that  for  foundation  philosophy 
will  not  go  far  astray. 

The  Will  who  made  the  whole  that  is  beside  Him- 
self, the  will  of  Omnipotent  God,  wills  for  that 
which  He  made.  His  will  governs  the  Universe; 
His  will  made  life  of  man;  His  will  governs  that 
life.  Wise  purpose  of  the  Omnipotent  Ruler  of 
Life  wills  for  that  life  while  it  is.  Why  let  that 
thought  be  forgotten.  Whose  purpose  would  rule 
other  than  that  of  the  Will  who  gave  life?  Man 
wishes  philosophy  to  help.  The  wise  purpose  of 
the  Wilier  of  All  must  be  one  foundation  thought. 

Will  Higher  was  when  the  Universe  was  not, 
when  life  of  man  was  not.  All  that  is  beside  Him- 
self He  created.  His  will  omnipotent  formed 
worlds.  All  His  Universe  obeys  His  will.  God, 
Master  of  all,  Will  Supreme,  wills  for  that  which 
He  made  forever.  By  His  will  life  is.  His  will 
rules  life.  That  which  He  wills  life  fulfills.  None 
may  forbid  His  will.  What  man  was,  is,  will  be, 
He  wills.  Purpose  unwavering,  He  purposes 
while  man  works,  while  man  lives,  for  the  life  which 
he  willed  to  be  man.  All  thought  which  philosophy 
must  have. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  man.  That 
follows  from  the  truth,  for  man  a  needed  thought, 


44  Will  Higher  of  God 

that  man  is  by  Will  Higher  made.  Will  Higher 
whose  purpose  life  fulfills,  follows  of  necessity  that 
thought.  Man,  life  willed,  wills  by  the  purpose  of 
Will  Higher,  for  his  will  that  Will  Higher  makes 
his  power. 

Wilberforce. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  Infinite  God,  made  His  Uni- 
verse. Will  Higher  is  man's  Maker.  Will  Higher 
wills  for  life  while  it  is  man  and  forever.  That 
thought  men  must  hold  fast.  Philosophy  wanders 
from  that  thought,  holding  that  life  is  self-existent, 
or  wills  itself  into  being.  The  philosophy  which 
leaves  out  will  of  the  Maker  of  All  misleads. 

Will  who  made  the  whole  that  is  beside  Him- 
self wills  for  that  which  He  made.  Man  He  made, 
for  He  is  Creator  of  Life.  Man  fulfills  by  His 
way  His  will.  Man  wills  because  Will  Higher 
gives  him  will.  Man  purposes  because  his  pur- 
pose Will  Higher  makes  man's  power.  Philosophy 
must  have  for  foundation  this  thought. 

Will  Higher,  the  will  who  made  the  Universe, 
made  life  of  man.  His  will  that -which  He  made 
fulfills  as  He  wills.  Man,  the  life  purposed  wider 
life,  wins  wider  life  by  the  way  which  Will  Higher 
purposes.  Through  will  free  man  man,  the  life, 
wins  that  which  God  purposes.  Then  will  free  He 
who  made  life  purposes  shall  win  for  life  that  which 


Will  that  Made  the  Universe  Rules  It       45 

frees  life  from  man.  Philosophy  using  this 
thought,  which  we  know  is  true,  would  be  full  of 
help. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  fulfills,  is  Life 
Infinite.  His  wTill  made  life  finite  for  worlds. 
Will  Higher  purposes  for  life  made  by  Him. 
Finite  life  fulfills  the  will  of  Life  Infinite  as  the 
Will  Higher  purposes.  Man  who  is  life  finite  ful- 
fills the  purpose  for  which  he  is  worker  on  earth. 
Man,  the  life  purposed  wider  life,  finds  wider  life 
by  the  means  Will  Higher  provides.  By  will  free 
life  finite  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Life  Infinite. 

The  life  which  is  man  is  willed  personal  worth  to 
be  found  by  its  own  purpose,  and  that  life  is  willed 
the  purpose  by  which  it  wins  worth.  God  wills  that 
life  free  itself  then.  His  purpose  life  must  obey. 
The  purpose  willed  for  man  as  life  fulfills  God's 
purpose. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that  life  be 
man  on  worlds.  His  will  governs  life  of  man  on  all 
worlds  that  have  man.  Worlds  suited  to  life  of 
man  were  made  by  God.  Life  willed  to  be  man  in- 
habits those  which  God  wills  as  man's  working 
place.  Man  wills  for  life  immortal  where  life  is 
man.  Worlds  which  have  man,  the  life  immortal, 
will  hold  that  life  while  it  prepares  by  God's  pur- 
pose for  life  in  the  wide  Universe.  Will  Higher 
rules  His  vast  Universe  while  He  wills  it  to  be. 


46  Will  Higher  of  God 

Man,  willed  creature  of  Omnipotent  God,  wills  for 
life  which  He  made  for  wider,  fuller  life  than  that 
of  man  on  worlds.  Higher  will  of  life's  Maker 
wills  for  all  life  which  He  made.  Purpose  of  life's 
Maker  purposes  for  the  life  made.  While  life  wills 
He  purposes  for  it  free  will.  Life  which  for 
worlds  is  man  uses  for  its  worth  will  free  given 
by  life's  Maker.  Wise  purpose  of  life's  Maker 
must  be  made  foundation  thought  of  man's  philos- 
ophy. 


WILL   OF    GOD    RULES    LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 
Will  Higher,  who  made  all  that  is  beside  Him- 
self, was  when  the  Universe  was  not.  His  will 
made  life.  His  purpose  rules  life  made  by  Him. 
The  life  which  for  worlds  is  man  He  wills  to  be  life 
immortal.  Man  who  has  from  Will  Higher  his  life 
has  from  Will  Higher  his  will.  Man  wills  then 
with  willed  will,  the  power  purposed  by  Will 
Higher  to  be  help.  Man  wins  worth  by  his  own 
free  will,  but  that  worth  is  willed  for  him  by  Will 
Higher.  With  the  powers  of  self  He  endows  life 
of  man.  By  the  Will  Higher  man  is  made  dweller 
on  earth;  by  that  Will  man  works.     The  life  which 


Will  of  God  Rules  Life  47 

on  earth  works  man's  work  is  life  immortal,  life 
willed  wider  work  and  fuller  life  when  the  earth 
life  is  finished.  Man  then  must  fulfill  the  Will 
who  made  him  life  of  self  immortal.  Then  man 
must  find  worth,  for  Will  Higher  wills  that  he  find 
worth.  Yes,  but  this  man  who  wills  now  wills  by 
free  will,  the  power  of  personal  self.  But  the  life 
is  willed  to  find  worth.  What  follows  that  thought  ? 
This:  Man  of  his  own  free  will  finds  that  which 
Will  Higher  wills.  Man  is  life  willed  immortality; 
then  man  wills  as  life  immortal  for  his  worth. 
Will  Higher,  then,  wills  for  life  of  man  that  which 
life  in  man  finally  wills  for  itself,  using  the  free  will 
made  man's  power  for  that  purpose. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  the  life  made  by  Him. 
His  will,  being  the  will  of  Him  who  rules  the  Uni- 
verse, the  life  made  by  Him  finally  fulfills.  For 
that  life  He  wills  man's  work;  for  that  life  He  wills 
teaching  by  man's  work;  for  that  life  He  wills 
worth  won  by  firm  will;  for  that  life  He  wills  free 
will;  for  that  life  He  wills  freedom.  Bound  then 
by  His  will  is  the  life  which  He  made,  though  to 
that  life  He  gives  will  free.  Man  wills  of  his  own 
free  will  that  which  He  wills  who  made  him  free. 
His  will  life  fulfills  by  the  power  He  wills;  His  will 
life  fulfills  as  He  wills.  The  free  will  of  life  man 
uses  by  God's  will;  the  free  will  of  life  made  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  Will  Higher. 


48  Will  Higher  of  God 

Man  is  the  willed  life  which  must  fulfill  the  pur- 
pose of  its  Maker.  His  life  is  purposed  wider  life 
than  that  which  is  man.  Wider  will  life  be  when 
freed,  wider  its  work.  Man  wills  for  the  man's 
worth.  Life  of  earth  man  has,  life  finite.  The 
Wilier  of  Life  is  the  wilier  for  all  that  is  the  Uni- 
verse. Life  is  ruled  by  Him.  Man,  life  of  per- 
sonal will,  has  will  from  the  Wilier  of  his  life. 
Man's  will  fulfills  the  purpose  of  its  giver,  for  life 
which  wills  of  free  will  finds  wider  life.  While  life 
is  man,  while  it  is,  the  Will  who  made  it  rules  it. 
His  will  extends  to  the  whole  that  He  made  the 
Universe.     That  will  all  that  He  made  fulfills. 

Wilberforce. 

Man  wins  his  worth  by  the  purpose  of  Life's 
Wilier.  Man  finds  free  will  his  help  finally  by  the 
purpose  of  Him  who  gave  it.  The  free  will  made 
life's  power  wins  the  worth  which,  by  the  will  of 
God,  makes  life  worthy  wider  life.  Why  then  need 
man  will  for  worth  ?  His  worth  he  is  purposed  by 
Will  Higher.  Was  man  made  not  free?  Would 
he  win  forced  worth,  being  free  life  of  personal  self? 
Will  free  man  is  willed,  and  by  free  will  he  is  pur- 
posed to  find  his  worth.  Will  free  of  personal  life 
finds  for  man  the  worth  which  God  wills  life  must 
find  on  earth. 

Man  willed  wills  by  willed  will.     His  life,  willed 


Will  of  God  Rules  Life  49 

wider  life  than  it  attains  in  man,  wills  for  the  wider 
life  purposed  by  its  Maker,  using  the  willed  will. 
Man  is  made  free  personal  self.  Then,  willing  as 
free  personal  self,  he  must  fulfill  the  Will  who  made 
him.  Man  then,  though  free  in  will,  is  life  that 
must  find  worth,  for  it  is  worth  that  frees  from  work 
and  life  of  earth. 

Purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  life  man  fulfills 
using  free  will  made  his  power  that  life  free  itself 
from  weakness.  Man  who  wills  for  life  wills 
finally  that  life  find  firm  free  will,  using  which  life 
fulfills  God's  purpose. 


WILL   FREE   OF   LIFE    PERSONAL 

Dr.  Coulter. 
The  Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He 
made  fulfills,  is  infinite  life,  infinite  being.  Man  is 
life  finite  whose  being  is  by  Life  Infinite  willed. 
Self  man  is,  willed  to  be  personal  life.  Then  by  the 
will  of  personal  life  man  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Life 
Infinite.  Will  Higher  wills  for  that  life  which  He 
made  finite,  wills  for  that  life  while  His  will  permits 
it  to  be  life.  The  purpose  of  Him  who  made  life, 
whose  will  is  the  will  of  Omnipotence,  the  life  finite 
must  fulfill.     But  by  the  will  which  He  wills  to  life 


50  Will  Higher  of  God 

finite  His  purpose  must  be  fulfilled.  His  will  made 
life  personal  self  whose  will  is  of  necessity  free. 
Then  the  purpose  of  Omnipotent  Will  for  the  life 
which  He  made  life  personal  must  be  by  the  will 
of  personal  life  fulfilled.  Worth  of  life  He  pur- 
poses that  self  personal  shall  find.  Worth  of  life 
personal  self  finds  through  wise  use  of  its  own  free 
will.  The  purpose  of  Life  Infinite  is  finally  ful- 
filled by  the  life  which  He  made  finite. 

Will  free,  which  man  uses  as  life  to  which  life's 
Maker  purposes  worth,  is  the  will  of  life  immortal. 
Then  by  the  life's  will  man  wills  his  worth.  Man, 
the  life  of  self,  wills  on  earth  purposing  there  as  he 
chooses.  Willed  his  life  worthy  by  God's  purpose, 
man  wills  for  that  life  using  his  free  will.  For 
life  purposed  worth  then,  man  wills  of  free  will, 
and  by  that  free  will  fulfills  God's  purpose  that  life 
win  worth.  Of  its  own  choice  life  wills  that  which 
of  God's  purpose  life  must.  Will  free  is  made 
man's  power  by  the  purpose  of  God  who  made  him 
personal  self.  Life  using  free  will  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose of  its  Maker  not  only  while  it  is  man,  but  for- 
ever. Life  of  self,  willed  worth  finally,  must  win 
that  purposed  worth  of  its  own  free  will.  The  life 
on  earth  purposes  for  wider  life.  Willed  to  be  man 
on  earth  by  Will  Higher,  made  the  self  by  Will 
Higher,  purposed  worth  by  Will  Higher,  life  of 
man  finds  the  purposed  worth  using  the  will  free 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  51 

of  life  immortal  which  is  purposed  to  be  help  while 
life  is. 

Man,  the  being  who  has  will,  wills  that  which  he 
pleases,  for  his  will  is  free.  But  man,  being  made 
by  Will  Higher,  must  fulfill  the  will  of  his  Maker. 
God  made  him  free,  but  his  life  must,  for  the  will  of 
God  is  will  Omnipotent.  Then  man  must  of  his 
free  will  fulfill  God's  purpose.  What  is  the  must? 
That  man  fulfill  his  Maker's  will;  that  life  fulfill 
through  man  His  purpose ;  that  life  personal,  life  of 
self,  fulfill  the  wise  Purpose  who  made  it  life  per- 
sonal. Then  life  wills  for  itself  that  which  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  Will  Higher. 

Will  Higher,  the  will  of  Him  who  wills  for  all 
life  made,  wills  that  while  life  is  man  it  become 
worthy  the  wider  life  He  purposes.  Man,  life  pur- 
posed wider  life,  finds  worth  for  that  wider  life 
using  his  own  free  will.  Yet  God  purposes  for  life, 
and  His  purpose  life  must  fulfill.  Then  will  free 
must,  for  God  thus  wills.  Would  that  mean  that 
will  is  not  free?  No,  will  of  life  personal  is  not 
bound,  but  free  necessarily.  Man,  using  free  will, 
wins  for  life  purposed  wider  life  the  worth  which 
permits  wider  life. 

Man  wills  for  life  purposed  to  find  worth.  His 
will,  free  always,  is  the  power  of  life  immortal. 
While  man  wills  life  wins  the  worth  which  frees  life 
from   earth.     The  wise   purpose   of   life's   Maker 


52  Will  Higher  of  God 

places  that  life  in  man  while  it  finishes  the  work  pur- 
posed to  teach  free  will.  Man  purposed  worth 
must  by  free  will  win  that  worth,  for  he  is  life  per- 
sonal. God  wills  that  life,  free  to  will  worth  or  un- 
worthiness,  be  taught  by  the  work  of  man  until  it 
learns  the  wise  use  of  free  will.  God  purposes,  and 
life  willed  must  fulfill  His  purpose.  The  life  in 
man  fulfills  that  purpose  finally,  taught  by  man's 
work,  taught  by  man's  life  until,  though  wholly 
free,  it  learns  that  which  God  wills  it  shall. 

This  man  must  then?  No,  his  will  free  he  uses 
as  he  wishes.  But  life  in  man  must  finally,  for  thus 
wills  life's  Maker,  God.  Then  what  man  wins  the 
purposed  worth?  All  men  have  will  wholly  free. 
The  man  last  incarnating  life  which  must  find  worth 
wins  it,  for  life  has  learned  the  wise  use  of  free  will. 
Man,  as  life  willed  worth,  finds  it  finally,  for  wise 
purpose  of  man's  Maker  thus  wills;  and  life  made 
by  God  fulfills  His  purpose  through  wise  use  of  its 
own  free  will. 

What  then  is  man?  Life  that  must  free  itself 
from  earth  by  its  own  will.  Then  man  is  bound? 
No,  will  free  is  not  bound  nor  forced,  yet  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  the  life  which  He  made  man, 
and  His  purpose  that  life  must  fulfill.  The  will 
which  God  wills  to  be  free  He  makes  the  means  by 
which  life  fulfills  His  purpose.  Self  wills  with  free 
will,  and  life  of  man,  though  willed  worth,  must 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  53 

find  it  of  free  will.  Made  life  man  is;  willed  will 
lie  uses.  Then  that  willed  will  must  fulfill  the  pur- 
pose of  Him  who  made  man  life  immortal.  When 
life  wills  that  which  its  Maker  wills  it  must,  the  life 
of  self  He  translates  to  wider  life.  Will  for  that 
worth  which  He  who  makes  will  free  wills  that  life 
shall  find,  man  wins  through  his  man's  work  and 
life.  Will  free  he  uses  in  that  work,  and  that  worth 
which  life's  Maker  purposes  life  shall  find  on  earth 
is  won  by  man's  free  will.  We  teach  here  that  life 
of  man,  willing  freely,  fulfills  the  will  of  man's 
Maker.  For  that  which  the  will  of  Omnipotence 
wills  man  wills  using  his  own  free  will.  Then  pur- 
posed worth  is  found  by  man  through  his  free 
choice.  Will  free  must  then,  for  the  Higher  Will 
life  must  obey.  Must  life  find  forced  worth  then? 
Would  life,  willed  free  will,  find  forced  worth? 
Will  for  worth  life  is  taught.  When  that  which 
life  must  find  is  by  free  will  found,  life  fulfills  the 
purpose  of  Higher  Will.  Life  is  bound  by  Will 
Higher.  Its  must  is  found  free  choice  finally. 
Each  life  of  self,  free  in  will  necessarily  since  it  is 
life  of  self,  wills  finally  that  which  life's  Maker  wills. 
That  which  man  wills  life  wills ;  and  while  will  free 
is  used  in  winning  that  worth  which  life  must,  life 
chooses  finally  to  will  well,  chooses  the  worth  which 
Higher  Will  purposes  that  life  shall  find. 

Man,  then,  whose  will  is  free,  is  life  that  must, 


54  Will  Higher  of  God 

and  will  free  willed  to  life  by  purpose  of  Will 
Higher  fulfills  that  purpose. 

Why  then  may  man  will  unworthily?  Why  may 
life  to  which  God  wills  worth  will  un worthiness? 
Free  personal  self  wills  that  which  it  chooses,  worth 
or  unworthiness.  But  the  purpose  of  Him  who 
gives  free  will  is  by  that  free  will  finally  fulfilled. 
Then  free  will  which  man  uses  for  both  worth  and 
unworthiness  becomes  finally  free  will  used  for 
worth,  because  Will  Higher  thus  purposes.  Man 
who  wills  as  he  chooses  finally  chooses  to  will  worth 
because  life  of  man,  by  the  will  of  the  Maker  of  life, 
is  taught  in  man.  Through  the  teaching  of  man's 
work,  through  the  teaching  of  man's  life  of  earth, 
life  personal  learns  wise  use  of  free  will.  Then 
taught  life  finally  wills  the  worth  which  Will 
Higher  purposes,  and  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher 
the  life  of  personal  self  fulfills  by  its  wise  use  of  free 
will.  Self  is  man  many  times.  In  the  many  lives 
of  man  life  personal,  man's  self,  learns  wisdom  in 
use  of  free  will.  Then,  willing  freely  as  God  wills 
that  life  personal  shall  will,  self  of  man,  life  pur- 
posed worth,  finds  worth  of  its  own  free  choice. 

There  find  reconciliation  of  man's  personal  free 
will  with  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher,  God. 

Man  works  the  work  which  God  purposes  for  life 
on  earth.  Man  wills  for  that  work  with  the  will 
which    God   makes   the    power   of    life   immortal. 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  55 

When  man  wills  then,  life  wills,  for  by  the  will  given 
to  man  as  life  purposed  immortality  is  the  work  of 
man  willed.  Why  may  will  which  God  purposes 
must  be  well  used  be  weakly  used?  Personal  self 
wills  of  necessity  by  free  will.  But  that  free  will 
must  then.  While  that  follows  logically,  the  will 
free  wins  the  worth  which  life  must  after  the  life  is 
taught  wise  use  of  free  will  through  man's  life  and 
work.  Self  wills  in  man  using  free  will;  must  wills 
for  life;  and  the  free  will,  after  life  is  taught,  fulfills 
that  must.  This  man  must?  No,  life  must,  for 
Will  Higher  thus  purposes.  But  while  life  wills 
it  is  taught  wisdom.  Wise  use  of  free  will  brings 
the  worth  which  life  must  find.  Wisdom  in  use  of 
free  will  life  learns  through  the  work  purposed  for 
teaching.  Wise  use  of  free  will  life  learns  through 
the  mistakes  which  life  makes.  Wise  use  of  free 
will  God  purposes.  The  teaching  which  He  wills 
that  life  shall  have  in  man  makes  life  wise.  Then 
man,  who  is  life  personal,  who  wills  as  he  chooses, 
may  but  will  for  that  life  of  self.  When  the  life  of 
self  is  taught,  man  who  then  incarnates  that  life  of 
self  wills  worth.  Freedom  of  will,  but  purpose  of 
Will  Higher,  philosophy  must  teach. 

The  will  which  frees  life  is  the  free  will  of  life  per- 
sonal well  and  worthily  used.  Man  is  free  personal 
self.  That  free  power  man  has  by  the  purpose  of 
life's  Maker.     Then  the  free  will  of  life  personal  is 


56  Will  Higher  of  God 

used  to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  life 
its  will  free.  That  will  which  He  purposes  must  be 
well  and  worthily  used,  (for  He  purposes  that  life 
personal  find  wider  life),  is  by  life's  free  choice  thus 
used.  The  will  free  of  life  personal  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose for  life  personal  of  its  Maker,  God. 

Will  Higher,  the  will  of  Him  who  willed  the  Uni- 
verse into  being,  made  the  life  which  is  man  for 
earth.  Will  Higher  made  that  life  personal  life. 
The  life  of  self  man  has,  and  by  the  will  of  self  man 
becomes  worthy  wider,  fuller  life.  When  the  will 
of  personal  life  weakens  in  the  work  of  man,  when 
the  personal  life  weakens  in  wish  for  worthiness, 
then  man  wills  that  life,  be  reincarnated,  for  man 
himself  finds  the  worth  for  wider  life  of  self. 
Using  free  choice,  man  wills  his  life  worthy  or  un- 
worthy. His  free  will  he  has  by  God's  purpose. 
That  free  will  must  win,  for  thus  Will  Higher  pur- 
poses, the  freedom  which  by  Will  Higher  is  willed. 
Man  then  for  himself  wills  freedom  or  further  work 
and  life  of  man. 

Man,  the  free  personal  life,  is  life  for  which  the 
Will  Higher  purposes.  What  worth  must  the  life 
win  by  free  will?  The  worth  for  higher  life. 
When  by  will  its  own  life  finds  worth,  the  life  is. 
by  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher,  worthy  higher  life. 
Man  wills  for  life  immortal,  which  is  purposed 
wider,  fuller  life  beyond  earth,  the  worth  through 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  57 

which  life  finds  that  higher  life.  Man  who  wills  for 
man's  life,  willed  to  be  the  earth  life  of  personal  self, 
wins  by  the  personal  will  of  self  the  wider  life  of 
self. 

When  life  wins  freedom,  what  is  life?  Man's 
life  continued;  with  powers  of  life  which  man  used 
wider,  and  life  wider  in  worth.  Will,  purpose, 
mind,  the  powers  which  the  life  will  use  forever, 
man  uses  in  the  work  of  life  on  earth.  Then  will 
used  for  life  which  man  has,  the  life  of  daily  work  on 
earth,  will  be  the  power  of  life  in  its  freedom  from 
man.  What  would  life  be  not  willing,  not  pur- 
posing, not  thinking  when  freed  ?  Nothing.  Will, 
mind,  purpose  make  life  worthy  the  wider  life  of 
self.  We  who  work  now  the  wider  work  which 
Will  Higher  makes  teaching  for  life  wider,  tell  for 
men  what  men  need  for  help  in  the  work  of  man's 
life.  The  life  of  personal  self  man  is.  That  life 
finds  wider  life.  That  life  takes  with  it  to  wider 
life  the  powers  which  it  uses  in  man. 

The  philosophy  which  makes  man  part  of  the 
whole  of  life  is  not  well  founded.  Man  is  life  per- 
sonal; willed  to  be  while  life  is  the  life  personal; 
willed  man's  life  as  life  wider  to  become;  and  the 
will  of  life  personal  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Will 
Higher.     This  thought  philosophy  must  have. 

Will  free  man  uses  to  win  the  worth  which  by  the 
Will  Higher  life  must  find  on  earth.     Life  of  man 


58  Will  Higher  of  God 

is  life  personal.  When  through  life  and  work  of 
man  self  learns  that  which  frees  life  from  weakness, 
life  personal  finds  wider  life.  The  thought  that  life 
wider  is  lost  in  the  whole  of  life  must  be  wrong,  for 
we,  the  lives  now  freed,  know  that  we  are  the  same 
selves  which  we  were  on  earth.  When  life  wins 
wider  life  it  is  wider  personal  life  that  it  wins.  Life 
once  personal  remains  personal  while  it  is. 

Will  free  which  man  has  then,  wins  for  life  per- 
sonal its  wider  life  personal.  That  thought  philos- 
ophy must  firmly  hold.  Life  wider  is  the  life  per- 
sonal which  was  man.  What  would  life  be  which 
loses  in  wider  life  its  personality?  Vague  concept, 
which  life  freed  knows  is  not  fact.  Will  for  man's 
life  worthy,  purpose  that  life  win  freedom,  would  be 
wasted  if  life  freed  loses  its  will  and  purpose,  lost 
itself  in  a  vague  whole  of  life.  The  thought  of 
philosophy  must  be  founded  on  truth.  Life  per- 
sonal remains  life  personal  while  it  is. 

Will  which  man  has,  being  the  will  given  to  life 
which  God  made  personal  life,  wins  the  worth 
which  God  purposes  that  life  shall  find  on  earth. 
Man  wills  that  which  he  chooses,  that  which  the  per- 
sonal life  chooses,  for  which  personal  life  God  pur- 
poses. Man  wills  finally  that  which  wins  for  per- 
sonal life  the  worth  which  God  purposes,  for  the 
purpose  of  Will  Higher  the  life  made  by  Him  must 
fulfill;  yet  man  wills  as  he  chooses.     What  follows? 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  59 

This — man,  being  the  personal  life  for  which  God 
purposes,  having  the  free  will  which  God  purposes 
shall  win  worth  for  wider  life,  uses  that  will  finally 
as  God  purposes.  But  would  that  mean  that  man 
of  to-day  wills  always  that  which  God  purposes? 
No;  this  man  is  free;  this  man  wills  always  as  he 
chooses.  But  life  is  many  men.  This  man  wills  as 
he  chooses,  and  the  many  men  who  are  the  one  life 
personal  will  each  as  he  chooses.  Then  what  from 
this?  The  life  finally  must  will  as  God  purposes; 
the  life,  being  personal  self,  is  free;  then  that  life 
which  wins  freedom  has  learned  that  which  God  pur- 
poses life  shall  learn,  wise  use  of  its  free  will.  That 
life  wills  as  it  chooses  changes  not  the  purpose  of 
God  who  rules  life  while  it  is.  Man  wills,  using  his 
free  will;  life  wins  freedom  from  man,  using  free 
will;  each  life  learns  finally  the  wise  use  of  its  free 
will;  and  thus  each  life  willed  to  be  personal  life 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  its  Maker,  God. 

Man,  who  is  willed  his  life  by  the  Maker  of  the 
Universe*  has  the  life  purposed  to  be  wider  than  that 
of  man.  When  man  finishes  the  earth  work  by 
which  the  Higher  Will  teaches  life,  when  life  has 
learned  its  lesson  for  earth  willed,  Will  Higher 
translates  that  life  to  wider,  fuller  life.  When  life 
finds  free  will  the  help  Will  Higher  purposes  it  shall 
be  finally,  then  life  finds  wider  life.  Wider 
worth  life  wins  in  freedom  from  man,  worth  which 


60  Will  Higher  of  God 

fits  life  personal  for  the  presence  of  God  Himself. 
Well  must  life  will  then  while  it  lives  on  earth,  well 
must  it  purpose,  for  by  its  free  will,  and  its  own  pur- 
pose it  wins  the  worth  for  wider  life.  Well  life 
wills  in  man  finally,  for  by  man's  worth  life  wins 
wider  life. 

Man  whose  work  is  willed  that  life  win  for  its  help 
firm  will,  firm  purpose,  wills  that  which  he  wishes, 
but  his  worth  of  life  is  purposed  by  the  Will  Higher. 
Then  his  free  will  must  win  the  purposed  worth. 
His  life  is  willed  free  will,  his  life  is  willed  freedom, 
his  life  is  willed  to  win  the  worth  for  freedom  by 
wise  use  of  his  free  will.  Then  the  purpose  of  Will 
Higher  for  the  life  which  is  man  is  by  its  will  free 
fulfilled.  The  freedom  which  Higher  Will  pur- 
poses that  life  shall  find  must  by  free  will  of  man  be 
found.  The  must  of  life  man  fulfills  by  use  of  his 
free  will.  Man  wills  as  Higher  Will  purposes 
finally,  for  his  life  is  taught  wisdom  by  the  purposed 
teaching  of  man's  life  and  work.  Hear,  man  of 
earth,  hear  and  heed  this  word. 

The  Will  Higher  of  the  Maker  of  that  which  is 
beside  Himself  was  before  His  Universe  was  made. 
His  life  is  the  life  infinite;  His  will  is  the  Will 
Omnipotent  which  rules  that  which  He  made.  The 
finite  life  made  by  Him  obeys  His  will ;  all  that  He 
made  obeys  Him.  The  life  which  He  made  is  pur- 
posed higher  life  than  that  of  man,  and  will  free 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  61 

which  He  who  made  life  makes  its  power  wins  that 
worth  which  by  Higher  Purpose  life  made  must. 
The  Higher  Will  all  that  He  made  fulfills.  None 
may  forbid  His  will.  The  life  of  man  He  wills  to 
be  life  personal.  He  wills  to  that  life  the  free  will 
of  life  personal.  That  which  He  wills  that  life 
personal  shall  find,  wider  life  than  that  of  man,  that 
life  finds  using  its  free  will.  Willed  life  which  finds 
wider  life  wins  the  purposed  worth  for  life  wider 
through  its  own  free  will.  Will  free  of  life  per- 
sonal fulfills  the  purpose  of  the  Higher  Will  for 
that  life.  Personal  life  wins  personal  worth,  and 
the  will  free,  which  power  God  purposes  shall  be 
finally  used  for  worth,  is  finally  thus  used.  Man, 
the  life  personal,  finds  the  worth  which  God  pur- 
poses for  life  on  earth  using  his  own  free  will. 
Thus  the  purpose  of  life  Omnipotent  is  by  free 
will  of  life  finite  fulfilled. 

The  Higher  Will  of  man's  Maker,  the  Higher 
Will  of  Omnipotent  God,  follows  life  made  to  eter- 
nity. Man,  being  life  immortal,  wills  for  that  life. 
By  the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  man  life  im- 
mortal the  life  works  man's  work,  thinks  man's 
thought,  lives  man's  little  life.  But  that  life  is  pur- 
posed wider  and  fuller  life  beyond  the  littleness  of 
man.  Work  is  purposed  to  teach  that  life  while 
it  is;  the  work  of  man  to  teach  the  life  while  it  is 
man,  the  work  of  wider  life  to  teach  the  wider  life. 


62  Will  Higher  of  God 

And  that  the  life  is  personal  self  reveals  its  pos- 
sibilities. Man  made  physical  is  life  for  earth; 
wholly  physical  is  man's  body.  But  the  life  of  per- 
sonal self  which  is  purposed  higher,  fuller  life  be- 
yond man,  is  life  which  develops  its  possibilities 
partly  in  man.  God  wills  that  each  life  personal 
have  the  powers  of  life  personal.  Free  in  will  that 
life  personal  is  made.  When  by  the  purposed 
teaching  of  man's  life  that  personal  life  is  taught 
wise  use  of  its  immortal  powers  life  immortal 
finds  personal  higher  life.  Will  free  wins  that 
higher  life  which  God  purposes  for  life  personal. 
The  life  which  is  man,  being  willed  higher  life, 
being  willed  the  powers  fitted  by  Him  who  makes 
them  life's  powers  for  the  immortal  use  of  life, 
finds  the  higher  life  purposed.  Man  wills  his 
wider  life  himself,  though  God  purposes  his 
worth.  Finally  the  made  life  which  for  earth 
is  man  wills  that  which  brings  the  higher  life  which 
God  purposes.  The  life  which  is  by  its  Maker  pur- 
posed wider  personal  life  wins  by  its  personal  wise 
use  of  will  free  the  worth  which  brings  wider  life. 
Personal  life  man  is  made,  personal  life  immortal. 

We  who  work  for  help  to  men's  thought  would 
have  men  believe  that  we  tell  that  which  we  know 
is  true.  Man  is  the  life  for  which  Will  Higher  pur- 
poses, though  he  is  life  of  free  will.  Then  the  life 
which  is  man  for  its  earth  life  wins  by  the  purpose  of 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  63 

its  Maker  the  wider  life  of  freedom.  We  have  won 
that  life;  we  tell  that  which  life  wider  knows.  That 
which  the  higher  purpose  of  God  wills  for  life  life 
fulfills.  The  life  finds  by  His  purpose  the  wider 
life  of  self.  The  winning  of  that  life  depends  on 
man's  will  free.  When  man  wills  that  which  the 
will  of  God  purposes  that  life  in  man  shall  will, 
He  gives  to  that  life  freedom,  wider  life,  fuller  life. 
When  life  has  for  itself  won  its  wider  life  His  will 
still  follows  it.  Life  freed  fulfills  His  purpose  to 
eternity. 

Man  who  wills  worth  or  unworthiness  as  he 
wishes,  whose  free  will  is  power  willed  to  him,  wins 
wTider  life  using  that  free  will,  yet  life  made  is  by  the 
Higher  Will  ruled.  What  must  has  man  to  fulfill? 
What  must  has  life  to  fulfill  ?  That  man  win  worth 
which  frees  life  from  man  is  man's  must.  But  life 
willed  man  is,  and  the  free  will  which  he  uses  is 
willed  power.  Man  must  of  free  will  find  the  worth 
that  frees  life  from  man.  Then  life  which  man  is, 
life  of  self  whose  will  is  free,  must  win  of  free  will 
the  worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  it  shall  win 
in  man.  The  power  which  man  has,  being  willed 
power,  willed  by  Him  who  made  man  life,  must  then 
win  for  man  the  worth  which  brings  higher  life  of 
self.  That  life  wills  of  free  will  changes  not  the 
purpose  of  life's  Maker.  That  purpose,  which  is 
that  each  life  find  higher  life  freed  from  man,  is  by 


64  Will  Higher  of  God 

man's  free  will  fulfilled.  Man  wills  his  own  worth, 
but  that  worth  is  won  by  the  purpose  of  God  who 
made  him  life  of  free  will. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  which  He  made 
fulfills,  was  when  life  which  is  man  was  not.  His 
will  rules  the  life  that  He  made,  though  He  gives  it 
will  free.  Man  who  has  for  his  power  the  power  of 
life  immortal,  will  free,  wins  by  that  will  free  the 
worth  that  wins  for  life  immortal  its  wider  life. 
From  man  freed,  life  lives  fuller  life.  Wider  its 
vision,  wider  its  thought,  wider  its  worth.  Will  for 
life  worthy  life  finds  first  in  man,  for  the  life  on 
earth  begins  the  life  immortal.  Well  then  must 
man  will,  well  must  he  purpose,  for  by  his  will  and 
purpose  the  life  immortal  finds  its  wider  life. 

The  Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He 
made  fulfills,  was  when  the  Universe  was  not.  His 
will  created  the  Universe ;  His  will  governs  all  that 
He  made.  His  will  is  the  will  of  Omnipotence. 
That  which  He  wills  the  Universe  obeys.  Man  is 
by  His  will.  Life  is  by  His  will.  God  who  made 
the  Universe  wills  for  it  while  He  wills  it  to  be. 

Man  who  works  the  work  purposed  for  life  of  will 
free,  man  who  wills  for  that  work  as  he  wishes,  is 
willed  life  to  which  Higher  Will  wills  wider  life 
than  that  of  man.  By  will  his  own  man  wills  for 
the  earth  work  of  immortal  life,  which  work,  pur- 
posed for  life  willed  immortality,  man  must  finish. 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  65 

Life  worthy  man  finds  finally,  for  thus  Will  Higher 
wills.  By  the  work  of  man  life  finds  worth  because 
that  work  well  finished  teaches  firm  free  will.  The 
worth  which  by  firm  will  life  finds  frees  that  life 
from  man,  and  by  the  will  for  worth  won  by  life 
in  man  life  wider  finds  its  wider  worth.  All  that 
which  He  who  willed  life  to  be  personal  self  pur- 
poses that  life  finally  fulfills.  Man  who  is  life  for 
which  wider  life  is  purposed  finds  free  will  the  help 
which  God  wills  it  must  be  finally.  Then  man  wins 
the  wider  life,  though  he  wins  it  of  his  free  will,  be- 
cause for  his  life  the  Will  Higher  purposes  wider 
life.  Man  wins  the  freedom  willed  by  the  way 
which  Will  Higher  purposes,  the  free  will  of  per- 
sonal self. 

The  will  of  Him  who  wills  for  all  follows  life 
while  it  is.  Man  wills  for  wider  life  because  life  is 
made  for  wider  life.  Will  free  wins  the  worth  for 
wider  life  because  God  thus  wills.  Man  the  life 
personal  wins  wider  personal  life  because  the  will  of 
God  made  life  for  wider  personal  life.  Man  who 
wills  his  personal  worth  frees  from  man  the  life  per- 
sonal by  God's  will.  All  that  He  made  fulfills  His 
will. 

Free  will  that  man  has  wins  the  freedom  which  by 
God's  purpose  life  of  self  must  find.  Will  Higher 
of  God,  the  Maker  of  all,  willed  life  into  being, 
willed  that  life  be  man  for  earth,  willed  that  by 


66  Will  Higher  of  God 

man's  life  the  personal  life  of  self  win  the  wider  life 
which  He  purposes.  Will  Higher  wills  for  the  life 
which  He  made  while  that  life  is  man  and  forever. 
His  purpose  follows  that  life  which  He  made  per- 
sonal life,  to  which  He  wills  the  powers  of  personal 
life,  while  it  works  man's  work,  while  it  is.  Then 
man  works  because  He  wills,  wills  because  He  gives 
him  that  power,  purposes  because  God  wills  to  him 
purpose.  All  that  He  made  fulfills  His  purpose. 
Man  the  life  personal  is  life  for  which  He  purposes. 
The  free  will  of  life  personal  fulfills  the  higher  pur- 
pose of  Him  who  wills  for  life  while  it  is. 

We  who  live  the  wider  life  of  freedom  from  man, 
who  know  that  life  freed  was  man  by  remembrance 
of  man's  life,  tell  that  life  with  free  will  works  in 
this  higher  life.  Will  free  wins  the  worth  of  higher 
life  as  it  wins  the  worth  of  man's  life.  We  think 
knowing  that  the  thinking  is  by  the  life  which  re- 
members its  man's  life.  We  purpose  knowing  that 
the  purpose  is  of  the  same  life  that  was  man.  We 
purpose,  thinking  for  wider  life,  as  the  life  pur- 
posed when  it  was  man.  Thus  life  of  personal  self, 
knowing  its  powers  to  be  the  same  powers  it  had  in 
man,  wills  for  the  higher  life  in  freedom  from  man. 
What  tells  us  this?  Life  itself  knows  itself.  Yes, 
life  of  self  knows  it  wills,  thinks,  purposes,  remem- 
bers for  itself  always.  But  that  life,  while  it  is 
personal,  lives  the  life  which  Higher  Will  purposes ; 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  67 

in  man  the  life  of  man,  in  higher  life  the  higher  life 
of  freedom  from  man.  That  life  is  life  of  self 
makes  plain  that  it  purposes  freely  that  which  per- 
sonal life  wishes.  But  that  changes  not  the  higher 
purpose  which  follows  life  while  it  is.  Man,  being 
life  personal,  purposes,  wills,  uses  life  as  he  wishes ; 
then  life  thus  wills  and  purposes.  But  the  purpose 
of  the  Wilier  of  Life  must  be  by  the  life  made  ful- 
filled. Then  life  which  wills  and  purposes  freely 
wills  finally  that  which  the  Higher  Purpose  wills, 
and  life  personal  free  in  will,  free  in  purpose,  finally 
by  the  free  powers  of  personal  self  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose of  Him  who  made  it. 

The  purpose  of  Will  Higher  that  life  find  worth 
for  higher,  fuller  life  beyond  man  must  be  by  the 
free  will  of  life  fulfilled.  Man  who  purposes  for 
himself,  whose  power  will  is  made  free,  wins  by  his 
wise  use  of  that  willed  power  his  worth.  Will  free 
then  man  has  because  for  him  Will  Higher  purposes 
worth  won  by  himself.  That  free  power,  which  is 
for  man  his  help  when  firmly  used,  wins  then  the 
purposed  worth  of  life.  Will  free  that  must  finally 
life  has.  That  power  which  life  uses  for  worth  or 
unworthiness  as  it  wishes  finally  wins  the  freedom 
which  Will  Higher  purposes  that  life  of  man  shall 
find.  The  purpose  of  that  Higher  Will  who  wills 
to  life  finite  free  will  must  by  that  free  power  be 
fulfilled.     Finally  life  free  in  purpose,  free  in  will, 


68  Will  Higher  of  God 

wills  that  which  the  will  of  life's  Maker  purposes, 
the  worth  for  higher,  fuller  life.  Man's  free  power, 
the  will  made  his  by  his  Maker,  wins  the  higher  life 
which  that  Maker  purposes  for  life  immortal. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  God  who  is  the  Maker  of 
All,  wills  for  all  which  He  made.  His  will  is  the 
Will  Supreme.  His  will  is  the  Will  Omnipotent. 
His  will  reaches  to  the  whole  of  His  vast  Universe. 
Man  was  made  for  worlds;  life  was  made  for  the 
Universe.  Man  works  on  worlds ;  life  works  finally 
in  the  vast  Universe.  Man  wills  of  free  will  on  all 
worlds ;  will  given  he  uses ;  his  free  wTill  is  the  gift  of 
the  Wilier  of  his  life.  Personal  self  always,  by  his 
free  will  of  personal  self  man  wins  his  worth  for 
freedom  from  worlds.  Ruled  by  Will  Supreme, 
life  fulfills  the  purpose  of  that  will.  Man,  creature 
of  Omnipotent  Will,  is  made  life  that  is  purposed 
worth  which  far  exceeds  man's  thought.  Life 
freed  wins  worth  by  free  will  while  it  is.  Man  wills 
as  life  purposed  worth  for  God's  presence  finally. 
May  free  will  win  that  worth?  We  know  it  must. 
Think,  who  would  found  wise  philosophy.  We 
who  tell  this  know. 

The  life  of  personal  will,  having  that  free  power 
from  its  Maker,  finds  by  wise  use  of  that  power  its 
worth.  But  free  will  may  be  wisely  or  foolishly 
used.  When  that  power  is  wisely  used  life  wins 
freedom;  when  weakly  or  wickedly  used  life  wins 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  69 

further  life  of  man.  What  will  then  will  this  man 
who  now  lives  choose,  the  wise  or  the  wicked  will? 
Choose  for  yourself,  man  who  has  free  will. 

Bishop  Wilberforce. 
Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  willed  hy  Him 
must  fulfill,  is  the  will  of  Him  Who  made  the  Uni- 
verse. His  will  rules  that  Universe.  His  will 
rules  life  which  hy  His  purpose  works  in  man. 
What  for  life  wills  He?  That  life  he  man;  that  life 
win  wider  work  and  fuller  life  when  it  has  finished 
the  earth  work  and  life.  What  further  wills  he? 
That  life  be  free  personal  self;  that  the  powers 
willed  to  life  be  free ;  that  will  free  win  for  life  pur- 
posed wider  life  the  worth  for  wider  life.  Wise 
purpose  of  Will  Higher  made  life  self  personal. 
By  His  will  that  life  uses  personal  will.  Of  neces- 
sity will  of  personal  self  is  free.  That  life  may  will 
that  which  life's  Wilier  does  not  purpose  is  then 
plain.  Will  Higher  then  purposes  that  life  of  per- 
sonal self  fulfill  His  will  through  use  of  free  will. 
Man  of  will  free  wins  for  life  purposed  wider  life 
the  worth  that  brings  wider  life.  Man's  free  will 
fulfills  for  life  the  purpose  of  life's  Wilier.  Man 
of  free  will  wins  for  life  the  worth  which  Will 
Higher  purposes  that  life  immortal  shall  find  on 
earth;  and  forever  that  free  life,  purposed  forever 
wider  and  wider  worth,  finds  its  worth  by  free  will. 


70  Will  Higher  of  God 

Free  will  of  personal  life,  will  that  man  uses  as  life 
purposed  wider  life,  fulfills  the  wise  purpose  of 
Him  who  made  life  man.  Will  free,  willed  power 
of  life  personal  made  man  for  life  of  earth,  is  the 
way  through  which  Will  Higher  wills  that  life  ful- 
fill His  purpose. 

Thought  for  philosophy  must  upon  truth  be 
founded.     This  we  know  is  true. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  of  man ;  Will  Higher 
wills  for  life  while  it  is.  Man  has,  by  the  purpose 
of  Will  Higher,  the  wide  powers  which  life  needs 
while  it  works  and  lives.  Man  wills  that  he  win 
freedom  for  his  life  by  the  will  purposed  to  help  life 
forever.  Man  by  free  will  wins  for  life  freedom 
which  God  purposes.  Man  works  as  life  the  man's 
work.  God  wills  for  man  that  his  work  and  his  life 
of  earth  finally  teach  life  the  firm  will,  the  firm  pur- 
pose that  by  His  purpose  make  life  worthy  its 
higher  life  and  work.  Will  free  man  has  from 
Will  Higher.  Will  free,  by  the  purpose  of  God 
who  wills  for  life  forever,  makes  man's  life  worthy 
the  freedom  purposed,  and  by  will  free  of  personal 
man  life  willed  freedom  finds  its  worth.  These 
thoughts  philosophy  must  have  to  be  true  help. 

Will  free  of  life  wins  man's  worth,  for  thus  He 
purposes  who  made  life  for  earth  man.  While  life 
wills  it  uses  the  will  it  uses  in  man.  The  free 
power  of  life  made  personal  self  is  man's  power. 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  71 

While  life  wills  it  uses  personal  free  will.  God 
wills  that  life  made  personal  self  find  by  the  wise  use 
of  its  own  free  will  the  worth  which  makes  life  per- 
sonal worthy  wider  life.  Willed  power,  free  will, 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  life's  Maker;  willed  power, 
free  will,  wins  for  life  purposed  wider,  fuller  life 
the  worth  which  wins  further  worth.  Man  finds 
first  worth  for  life  immortal.  Through  wise  use  of 
personal  free  will  life  finds  further  worth  to  im- 
mortality. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  made  must  ful- 
fill, wills  that  while  life  is  man  the  wise  use  of  will 
free  make  it  worthy  wider  life.  Then  man  wills 
that  which  his  Maker  purposes  using  the  will  he 
has,  must  thus  will,  for  God  purposes  he  shall. 
But  will  of  life  personal  is  necessarily  free.  Then 
free  will  must,  and  life  fulfills  God's  purpose  itself; 
that  follows  of  course.  Man  wins  worth  by  free 
will.  His  will  is  given  by  God  for  that  purpose. 
It  is  made  free  that  life  personal  find  personal 
worth.  Man,  being  life  willed  worth,  being  life 
personal,  must  by  personal  free  will  find  worth. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  Will  Higher  who 
rules  life  forever,  wills  for  life  man's  life  that  man 
find  for  life  the  firm  will  and  purpose  which  life 
must  thus  find  to  win  freedom.  Why  then  may  life 
in  man  will  weakly,  permitted  thus  to  will?  For 
God's  purpose  will  of  life  personal,  will  that  man 


72  Will  Higher  of  God 

uses  for  life  personal,  is  free.  Will  Higher  pur- 
poses for  life  freedom  won  by  its  own  will  free,  and 
will  free  must  win  worth  finally,  for  that  which  Will 
Higher  purposes  life  made  must  obey.  Why  then 
has  man  not  will  bound?  His  life  made  personal 
self  wills  by  free  will  always  its  worth.  The  must 
which  life  fulfills  is  that  life  win  freedom  of  personal 
will.  Man  wills  his  worth  as  life  personal,  and  his 
will  free  wins  finally  the  worth  God  purposes  that 
life  shall  find  on  earth.  Man  wills  that  which  frees 
life  immortal  using  his  free  power,  will  of  personal 
self.     We  tell  truth.     You  who  read  must  think. 

Will  Higher  wills  that  life  for  worlds  be  man. 
Will  Higher  wills  that  while  life  is  man  it  prepare 
for  the  fuller  life  which  He  wills  for  life  immortal. 
When  He  frees  life  it  has  won  the  worth  He  pur- 
poses that  life  on  earth  must  win.  Will  Higher 
wills  for  life  wider  work.  Won  by  life  in  man  must 
be  the  wise  free  will  by  which  life  works  we]l  in  wider 
life. 

The  will  which  man  has  belongs  to  life  personal. 
That  life  of  personal  self  works  man's  work,  wills 
man's  life  worthy.  For  wider  life  of  self  that  life 
of  man  is  made.  Then  the  worth  which  man  finds 
by  his  will  is  personal  worth  which  life  personal 
takes  to  wider  life.  When  life  wins  freedom  the 
personal  life  has  won  freedom.  The  wider  life  is 
wider  life  of  self;  and  while  life  is  it  remains  life  of 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  73 

self. 

Philosophy  which  would  merge  the  personal  life 
in  the  whole  of  life  is  wrong.  Man  finds  personal 
worth  for  life  which  remains  life  personal  while  it 
is. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  is  Life  Infinite. 
His  will  is  the  will  omnipotent,  the  Will  Supreme. 
His  will  reaches  all,  rules  all  that  is.  Then  life 
made  by  Him  must  fulfill  His  will.  But  He  makes 
life  personal  life  whose  will  He  makes  free.  Then 
life  personal  must  of  free  will  fulfill  His  will.  But 
life  free  in  will  wills  that  which  it  chooses,  of  course. 
Then  how  reconcile  the  free  will  of  life  with  the 
Higher  Will  of  God? 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  work.  The  first  work 
it  has  is  man's  work.  That  first  work  God  pur- 
poses as  teaching  for  the  life  which  must.  By 
work  taught  life  learns  wise  use  of  free  will.  Will 
of  life  personal  is  free  necessarily.  Then  the  life 
wills  for  itself  the  worth  that  brings  freedom.  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  that  life  to  which  He  gives  free 
will  that  it  be  taught  wise  use  of  free  will,  and, 
taught  by  the  work  Will  Higher  gives  life  on  earth, 
man  as  life  finds  free  will  the  help  that  Will  Higher 
purposes  it  shall  be.  Free  personal  life  man  is 
made.  Using  the  free  will  of  life  personal,  which 
will  is  taught  as  the  Will  Higher  wills  it  shall  be, 
man  the  life  free  in  will,  wins  by  that  free  will  the 


74  Will  Higher  of  God 

worth  which  by  the  purpose  of  God  life  must. 
Thus  free  will  of  man  is  reconciled  with  the  purpose 
for  life  of  Omnipotent  God. 

The  higher  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  that 
which  He  made  must  be  foundation  thought  in  phi- 
losophy. That  purpose,  the  purpose  of  the  life's 
Maker,  purposes  for  life  while  it  is.  Man  is  the  life 
which  by  that  higher  purpose  wins  wider  life;  man 
is  the  life  which  by  the  higher  purpose  wins  freedom 
from  earth.  All  that  Purpose  Higher  wills  that 
which  He  made  fulfills.  Man  who  wills  his  own 
worth  is  by  the  purpose  of  God  life  which  must  find 
higher  life;  and,  free  though  life  is  in  man,  free 
though  it  be  while  it  is,  that  life  fulfills  by  the  will 
free  made  its  power  for  purpose  of  Omnipotent 
God  that  higher  purpose.  What  life  is  man  knows 
not.  Only  He  who  made  it  fully  understands  life. 
But  life  is  willed  by  Him  to  find  higher  life,  and  is 
willed  to  be  personal  self  whose  will  is  free.  Then 
that  life  of  self,  free  though  it  be,  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose of  Him  who  made  it  using  the  will  free  which 
He  makes  that  life's  power.  Man  free  in  will,  life 
free  in  will,  fulfill  by  that  free  will  the  Purpose  who 
made  life  personal  self. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  the  will  of  the  Maker 
of  all  that  is  beside  Himself,  purposes  for  all  that 
He  made.  Will  free  of  life  personal  He  wills  that 
man  have,  yet  for  the  life  which  is  man  He  pur- 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  75 

poses.  The  will  which  He  makes  free  has  His  will 
for  its  must,  then.  That  which  Will  Higher  pur- 
poses all  that  He  made  fulfills.  The  must  for  life 
personal  is  that  by  its  free  will  it  fulfill  the  Purpose 
who  gives  free  will.  Man  frees  himself  from  work 
of  man,  then,  using  free  will  made  his  that  life  per- 
sonal win  wider  life  of  its  free  choice.  Man  is  that 
life  which  wins  freedom.  Man  wins  that  freedom 
which  Will  Higher  wills  for  life  personal  by  his  own 
wise  use  of  free  will.  When  life  personal  finds  its 
will  free  the  help  which  Will  Higher  purposes  it 
shall  be  finally,  the  life  personal  wins  the  freedom 
which  by  Will  Higher  is  for  life  immortal  pur- 
posed. 

The  wise  thought  which  philosophy  needs  is 
here: — Purpose  of  the  Wilier  of  the  whole  which 
men  name  the  Universe.  Wise  thought  for  philos- 
ophy needs  as  foundation  AVill  Higher  who  pur- 
poses for  life. 

The  will  of  life  finite,  free  though  it  be,  wins  that 
which  Life  Infinite  purposes  that  life  made  shall 
win,  wider  life  beyond  earth.  Man  whose  will  he 
uses  for  worth  or  weakness,  man  who  uses  the  life 
of  earth  well  or  ill  as  he  wishes,  is  life  for  which 
Purpose  Higher  wills.  God  wills  for  that  life  to 
which  He  wills  free  will.  Man,  the  willed  life, 
finally  fulfills  His  purpose.  Then  free  will  made 
life's  power  fulfills  the  purpose  of  God.     With  free 


76  Will  Higher  of  God 

will  man  works.  That  work  which  is  by  God's  pur- 
pose teaching  for  free  will  finally  teaches  wise  use 
of  free  will.  The  purpose  of  Him  who  made  man 
personal  life  is  by  the  personal  free  will  fulfilled. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  which  He  made  while 
it  is,  yet  He  wills  that  the  will  of  life  be  free. 
When  life  which  wills  of  free  will  wins  that  which 
free  will  must,  He  who  made  life  translates  that  life 
to  wider,  fuller  life.  The  will  free  which  He  makes 
the  power  of  life  personal  fulfills  His  purpose  for 
life  personal.  Man  who  is  willed  life,  whose  per- 
sonal power  will  is  wholly  free,  fulfills  by  that  free 
will  God's  purpose  that  life  find  worth  for  wider 
life.  The  will  which  man  uses,  being  the  free  will 
of  personal  life,  wins  by  the  free  choice  of  personal 
self  the  freedom  which  Will  Higher  wills  that  per- 
sonal self  shall  find. 

Will  Higher,  Will  who  made  the  whole  that  is  be- 
side Himself,  Will  who  purposes  for  that  which  He 
made,  Life  Infinite,  Wilier  of  life  finite,  wills  for 
that  which  He  made  forever.  That  which  He  wills 
all  fulfills.  None  may  dispute  His  will.  Omnipo- 
tent Creator,  Omniscient  Life,  Will  Supreme,  He 
rules  that  which  He  created  while  it  is.  His  will 
governs  all.  His  will  reaches  the  farthest  world 
of  the  vast  Universe.  The  thought  of  philosophy 
must  hold  fast  this  thought.  Man  who  has  from 
the  Will  Higher  his  life  wills  that  which  He  pur- 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  77 

poses ;  man  who  wills  freely  wills  for  that  which  He 
purposes.     His  will  reaches  all  that  He  made. 

The  higher  will  of  God  Omnipotent  wills  for  life 
which  He  made ;  but  the  life  to  which  He  gives  free 
will  fulfills  His  will  using  its  own  free  power.  Re- 
member this,  man  of  earth. 

Man  whose  worth  frees  life  from  man  wins  that 
worth  himself.  That  Will  whose  purpose  life  ful- 
fills, the  will  of  Him  who  made  life,  the  man  who 
incarnates  life  finally  fulfills,  for  he  is  that  life  for 
which  Will  Higher  purposes.  Free  to  choose 
worth  or  unworthiness,  free  in  will,  free  in  purpose, 
man  is  yet  the  life  for  which  worth  is  purposed  by 
Higher  Will.  Then  his  free  will  finds  for  that  life 
the  worth  which  that  life  must. 

When  man's  free  will  has  won  the  worth  which  by 
God's  purpose  life  must  find  on  earth,  His  pur- 
pose follows  that  life  to  wider  life.  Man  himself 
wills  the  worth  that  brings  wider  life.  Will  free 
he  uses  for  that  worth.  Then  his  free  power,  made 
his  by  the  Wilier  of  Life,  fulfills  the  purpose  for 
which  man  is  made  life  personal.  Will  Higher 
purposes;  life  made  fulfills  His  purpose.  All  that 
Will  Higher  made  fulfills  His  purpose.  What 
man  was,  is,  will  be,  He  purposes.  Man  by  his 
willed  power,  free  will,  fulfills  the  purpose  for  his 
life  of  Higher  Will. 


78  Will  Higher  of  God 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher  wills  that  life  be  man ;  He  wills  that 
man  use  free  will;  He  wills  that  life  find  worth  by 
will  wholly  free.  Worth  won  must  by  free  will  be 
won.  God's  will  rules  life.  By  His  purpose  life 
wins  wider  life ;  by  His  purpose  life  finds  worth  for 
wider  life;  won  is  that  worth  by  life's  free  will. 
The  life  purposed  freedom  finds  it  as  the  Will 
Higher  wills.  Man's  will  free  accords  with  the 
wise  purpose  of  Will  Higher  who  made  him  life 
personal.  Will  free  of  life  personal  wins  for  life 
personal  to  immortality  its  worth. 

Will  Higher,  will  who  made  the  Universe,  whose 
purpose  that  which  He  made  must  fulfill,  must  for 
man's  philosophy  be  foundation  thought.  Man, 
the  willed  life  who  wills,  wills  by  purpose  of  Will 
Higher.  Why  then  may  life  of  man  will  that 
which  Will  Higher  purposes  not?  Will  Higher 
made  man  life  personal  whose  will  is  free  Why 
may  life  of  man,  which  by  purpose  of  Will  Higher 
finally  must  be  worthy,  be  weak  in  man?  Will 
Higher  made  life's  will  free.  Why  may  life  that 
wins  finally  by  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  freedom 
from  man,  find  of  will  free  unworthiness  that  holds 
it  to  man?  Will  Higher  made  life's  will  free. 
Why  may  will  free  win  both  worth  and  weakness? 
By  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  life  learns  what 
helps,  using  will  free.     Man  wills  that  which  he 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  79 

wishes;  but,  thus  willing,  being  life  that  must  find 
worth,  man  finally  finds  it.  Will  Higher  purposes; 
that  which  He  made  fulfills  by  His  way  His  pur- 
pose. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  while  it 
is.  Man  is  life  for  earth  willed.  Work  of  man  life 
has  for  its  earth  work.  That  will  which  life  uses  in 
man's  work  it  uses  for  wider  life's  work.  God  wills 
for  life  while  life  works,  though  for  life  He  wills 
free  will.  Purpose  who  made  life  free  personal  self 
wills  for  the  personal  self  while  that  self  wins  by 
free  will  the  worth  He  purposes  self  shall  find. 

Will  free  which  must  life  has.  By  the  free  will 
of  personal  self  man  wins  finally  the  worth  which 
life  must  find  by  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will. 
Then  must  wills  for  life  of  man.  Yes,  the  life  free 
in  will  is  bound  by  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will. 
Its  must  is  that  by  will  its  own  it  find  the  worth 
which  by  the  Purpose  who  made  man  life  personal 
wins  wider  life.  For  life  worthy  man  must  will 
then  to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  God. 

Will  free  man  uses  to  finish  the  work  purposed 
for  life  on  earth.  Will  free  man  uses  to  find  for  life 
immortal  freedom.  Won  by  the  will  free  of  man 
must  be  the  life  wider  of  personal  self. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  made  freedom  from 
man  and  higher  life.  But  by  the  power  which  Will 
Higher  wills  to  man,  the  free  will  of  life  personal, 


80  Will  Higher  of  God 

life  willed  worth  finds  that  worth.  Purposed 
higher  life  than  that  of  man,  willed  free  will,  life 
personal  finds  that  higher  life  through  wise  use  of 
willed  free  will.  Man  must,  for  he  is  life  personal, 
will  of  free  will.  But  Will  Higher  purposes  for 
life  personal.  That  which  Higher  Will  purposes 
life  made  fulfills  by  wise  use  of  personal  free  will. 
Man  wills  that  which  life  must  finally,  taught  by  the 
life  purposed  to  teach  wise  use  of  free  will.  Man 
wins  wider  life  of  personal  self  through  his  wise 
use  of  life's  free  will,  and  the  purpose  of  Higher 
Will  is  fulfilled  through  the  power  that  Higher 
Will  gives  to  life  personal.  Willed  power,  free 
will,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  man's  Maker. 

What  from  this  must  be  the  following  thought? 
Will  free  must,  though  it  be  free,  fulfill  God's  pur- 
pose for  life  immortal. 

The  life  which  man  has,  life  of  free  will,  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  him  free  in  will. 
That  which  the  Higher  Will  purposes  life  free  in 
will  fulfills  then.  But  man  wills  that  which  he 
chooses.  Would  that  mean  that  he  wills  always  as 
his  Maker  purposes?  No,  free  life  wills  always  for 
itself.  Yet  it  is  by  Higher  Purpose  bound.  Will 
free  man  uses  in  the  work  of  his  life,  and  free  will  he 
uses  to  find  his  worth.  But  life  is  taught  by  God 
finally  the  wise  use  of  free  will  that  He  purposes. 
Man  who  wills  using  his  own  free  will  finally  wills 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  81 

as  God  purposes.  Life  is  many  men.  What  man 
wills  as  God  purposes?  The  man  who  last  incar- 
nates immortal  life ;  his  free  will  is  help.  Man  who 
lives  the  earth  life  is  immortal  life  purposed  higher 
life.  His  free  will  wins  for  life  immortal,  for  he  is 
that  immortal  life,  the  worth  that  by  the  purpose 
of  God  life  must  win  in  man.  God's  purpose  for 
life  free  in  will  that  free  will  fulfills.  Finally  life 
in  man  wills  worth,  finally  life  wins  through  wise 
use  of  its  own  free  will  the  higher  life  which  God 
Omnipotent  purposes. 

The  Higher  Purpose  who  wills  for  that  which  He 
made  is  the  purpose  of  Omnipotent  God.  His  pur- 
pose for  the  life  made  that  life  fulfills.  Made  life 
which  is  purposed  free  will,  made  life  which  is  pur- 
posed wider  life  than  that  of  man,  wins  that  which 
brings  wider  life  by  its  own  free  will.  But  for  that 
made  life  the  Higher  Purpose  wills  that  it  be  life 
personal  to  which  He  wills  worth  won  by  its  own 
free  will.  Will  free  wins  that  purposed  wider  life ; 
will  free  wins  the  worth  of  life  whether  it  be  man  or 
wider,  fuller  life;  will  free  fulfills. to  eternity  the 
Purpose  who  made  life  personal  self. 

The  will  free  of  man  must  win  the  worth  which 
by  God's  purpose  frees  life  from  earth.  Man  wills 
that  which  God  wills  finally,  then.  His  wise  use  of 
free  will  man  learns  through  the  work  made  by  God 
teaching  for  life.     Willed  freedom,  life  finds  it  by 


82  Will  Higher  of  God 

the  free  will  God  makes  life's  power.  That  life  win 
freedom  by  its  free  choice  Will  Higher  purposes, 
and  life  made,  though  for  the  time  it  may  will 
weakly,  finally  fulfills  His  will.  Free  will,  not 
bound,  wins  that  which  life's  Maker  wills.  Man, 
though  man,  is  more  than  man.  His  free  will, 
though  his,  is  life's  power.  And  there,  in  worth  pur- 
posed for  immortal  life;  in  teaching  by  the  earth 
work  and  life  of  man,  that  teaches  finally  because 
God  thus  wills ;  and  in  reincarnation  until  life  pur- 
posed wise  use  of  free  will  learns  that  wise  use;  is 
reconciliation  of  the  free  personal  will  of  man  and 
the  purpose  of  Will  Higher.  Man  finds  finally  the 
the  worth  God  purposes  that  life  willed  freedom 
from  earth  shall  find  on  earth.  B}r  free  will  man 
wins  that  worth.  By  free  will  man  fulfills  God's 
purpose. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He  made 
must  fulfill,  wills  for  life  while  it  is.  Life  willed 
worth  finds  worth;  life  willed  worth  by  tree  will 
won  finds  worth  through  free  will ;  man  by  the  free 
will  God  makes  his  power  fulfills  God's  purpose  for 
him;  willed  work,  life  wins  freedom  by  will  taught 
through  the  willed  work;  willed  freedom,  life  finds 
that  freedom  as  Will  Higher  purposes.  Will 
Higher  wills  and  life  fulfills  by  His  way  His  pur- 
pose. 

Will  Higher  was  infinite  life  when   His  Uni- 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  83 

verse  was  not.  He  made  the  life  which  is  man. 
His  will  follows  that  life  while  it  is.  Wide  life  will 
be  in  freedom  from  earth,  but  the  man  finds  the 
worth  for  that  wider  life.  Free  in  will,  man  finds 
his  worth  himself.  The  freedom  which  life  finds  is 
by  the  Maker  of  that  life  willed.  The  wider  life 
which  for  life  personal  God  wills  brings  to  life 
wider  worth.  His  way  life  follows  while  it  is. 
Personal  life  man  was  made;  personal  life  finds 
wider  life;  personal  life  wins  personal  worth  for 
wider  life  while  it  is.  Worth  of  life  man  finds  by 
the  purpose  of  life's  Maker,  but  it  is  free  personal 
life  that  wills  in  man.  The  purpose  of  Will  Higher 
follows  life  while  it  works  man's  work,  teaching  that 
life  wise  use  of  its  free  will.  The  purpose  of  Will 
Higher  follows  that  life  while  it  works  the  wider 
work  of  life  freed.  While  life  is  the  purpose  of 
Will  Higher  follows  it.  Man  wins  purposed  worth 
for  purposed  wider  life,  using  free  will  made  his 
by  Him  who  wills  for  life  forever. 

Will  free  man  uses  in  the  work  which  He  who 
made  life  man  makes  the  work  of  that  life  for  earth. 
Man  who  wills  of  free  will  works  work  purposed, 
then.  When  that  will  is  well  used,  life  wins  worth 
for  wider  work  of  freed  life.  When  that  will  is  ill 
used  life  wins  further  work  of  man.  Then  free  will 
which  life  may  use  well  or  ill  becomes  the  will  which 
helps  if  well  used,  or  the  will  which  harms  if  ill  used. 


84  Will  Higher  of  God 

But  Will  Higher  purposes  that  free  will  be  well 
used  finally.  Then  wise  use  of  free  will  God  pur- 
poses, and  unwise  use  is  the  free  choice  of  the  life 
which  He  made  personal  self.  But  will  of  personal 
life  must  finally  be  wisely  used,  for  thus  Will 
Higher  purposes.  Finally  the  life  which  is  free 
in  will  learns  wise  use  of  free  will,  and  will  free 
becomes  the  help  which  it  is  purposed  to  be.  Then 
the  personal  life  which  wills  that  which  it  chooses, 
worth  or  unworthiness,  finally  wills  worth,  and  will 
free  fulfills  the  purpose  of  God. 

The  worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  that  life 
shall  win  on  earth  man  must  win  himself.  Though 
his  free  purpose  makes  his  life  worthy,  he  is  life  for 
which  God  purposes.  Man  free  in  will,  free  in  pur- 
pose, finally  wins  by  his  free  will  and  purpose  the 
freedom  which  Higher  Will  purposes  for  his  life 
immortal. 

The  free  power  of  life  personal  wins  for  that  life 
its  worth.  In  man  that  power  wins  worth  for  life 
higher ;  when  life  is  freed  that  power  wins  its  worth ; 
while  life  is  that  free  power  wins  its  worth.  Help 
that  power  is  by  life's  Maker  purposed  to  be. 
Help  it  is,  though  free  by  God's  purpose,  while  life 
is. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  willed  being  by 
Him  fulfills,  is  the  Will  Supreme.  The  life  which 
He  willed  into  being  must  obey  His  will.     The  life 


Will  Free  of  Life  Personal  85 

willed  man  is.  His  will,  made  his  power  by  the 
Will  Higher,  is  free.  What  follows  this  truth? 
The  life  willed,  being  willed  free  will,  by  free  will 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will.  The  will 
which  man  uses  for  his  worth  is  will  made  his  by  the 
Will  Higher.  That  free  will  fulfills  the  purpose  of 
Him  who  wills  man  to  be  personal  life. 


WILL   FREE    FULFILLS    THE    PURPOSE   OF   WILL 
HIGHER 

Dr.  Coulter. 
Will  Higher  makes  life's  will  free,  but  purposes 
for  life  while  it  is.  Life  wills  then  forced  to  worth  ? 
No,  life's  will  is  free,  and  will  free  finally  well  used 
fulfills  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  made  life's  power. 
The  will  free  is  will  of  life  personal,  and  is  neces- 
sarily free  if  life  is  personal  self.  The  will  bound 
would  be  will  of  life  not  free  personal  self.  Man 
wills  as  he  wishes,  permitted  thus  to  will,  and  life 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  by  the  will  that 
Will  Higher  gives  for  the  purpose  that  life  will 
worth  itself.  Man  wills  as  life  bound  by  Will 
Higher,  and  life  purposed  worth  finds  it  willing  for 
it  of  its  own  free  will.  Will  free  must  win  the 
worth  life's  Maker  purposes,  the  worth  which  frees 


86  Will  Higher  of  God 

life  personal  from  earth.  Will  is  taught  by  the 
work  God  wills  to  be  teaching,  and  will  free  wisely 
used  frees  life  that  is  purposed  freedom.  Then 
man,  being  personal  self,  wills  for  himself  the  worth 
which  life  by  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  must  find. 
Will  free,  made  life's  power  by  God's  purpose,  ful- 
fills that  purpose. 

Will  Higher  rules  the  Universe.  Then  Will 
Higher  rules  life  which  is  part  of  the  Universe. 
Man  who  wills  wills  because  Will  Higher  made  him 
with  will.  Man  wills  with  the  will  made  his  as  life. 
Will  free  is  made  man's  power  by  the  Will  who 
wills  for  all.  Man  wills  that  which  Will  Higher 
purposes  using  the  will  made  his  by  Will  Higher. 

Man  wills  that  which  Will  Higher  purposes  that 
life  must  will,  using  the  free  will  of  life  made  per- 
sonal. For  the  worth  purposed  man  wills,  using 
the  free  will  given  for  wise  purpose  of  life's  Maker. 
That  which  man  wills  life  wills.  For  wise  pur- 
pose will  is  free.  Life  willed  personal  worth  man 
is.  But  life  made,  though  it  be  free  in  will,  ful- 
fills finally  the  will  of  God.  Will  is  free,  but  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  the  life  which  has  will  free. 
Man  wills  by  willed  free  will.  By  that  power  He 
wins  his  worth.  Purpose  of  Will  Higher  must  be 
fulfilled  by  the  will  free.  By  will  free  life  in  man, 
life  while  it  is,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  the  Wilier  of 
life  and  will. 


The  Purpose  of  Will  Higher  87 

All  thought  which  must  he  for  philosophy  foun- 
dation thought.  Life  is  made,  will  is  willed  power, 
self  uses  willed  power,  free  will,  hy  the  Will  who 
made  life  free  personal  self;  will  free,  then,  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  it  life's  power. 
That  which  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Will  Higher  is 
free  will.  Will  Higher  rules  life  that  He  made 
while  it  is.  Life  wins  worth  hy  the  will  of  Will 
Higher.  Life  wins  freedom  from  earth  hy  the 
Will  who  made  life  worthy  wider,  fuller  life  than 
that  of  man.  Will  Higher  wills,  all  that  which  He 
made  fulfills  His  will. 

Man  who  wills  with  willed  power,  free  will,  wills 
finally  that  which  the  Wilier  of  his  life  and  will 
purposes.  His  will,  being  the  power  of  life  made 
personal,  is  necessarily  free.  Yet  by  that  will  His 
Maker  wills  that  he,  as  life,  find  the  worth  that 
Maker  wills  life  shall  find,  worth  which  frees  that 
life  from  earth.  Man  wills  as  he  chooses;  yet  life 
is  bound  by  the  purpose  of  its  Maker. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  while  life  is 
man  for  that  life.  Will  with  which  man  wills, 
made  free  for  his  worth  or  unworthiness,  he  uses 
finally  for  worth,  taught  by  the  way  Will  Higher 
wills  that  life  be  taught  on  earth. 

Will  free  for  man,  for  life  immortal  free,  ful- 
fills the  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  it  to  be  free. 
Willed  will,  though  free,   fulfills  the  purpose  of 


88  Will  Higher  of  God 

Will  Higher.  Will  free  of  life  personal,  will  of 
life  immortal  made  personal,  wins  for  that  life  its 
worth  for  the  higher,  fuller  life  purposed  by  Will 
Higher.  When  self  wills  as  He  wills  who  made 
it  life,  when  self  finds  the  worth  He  purposes  for 
life  which  He  made,  the  life  finds  that  higher,  fuller 
life.  Won  by  man's  free  will  must  be  the  worth 
that  brings  freedom  from  earth  and  higher,  fuller 
life. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  must  fulfill, 
made  life  free  in  will,  but  life  was  made  for  higher 
life  than  that  of  man.  Then  by  will  free  life  must 
reach  the  worth  for  higher  life.  The  must  which 
He  wills  who  made  life  free  in  will  is  that  by  free 
will  life  fulfill  His  purpose.  The  worth  purposed 
for  life  free  in  will  must  by  free  will  be  attained. 
Man  wills  that  life  be  worthy,  using  free  will  given. 
Then  will  free  given  to  man  fulfills  the  purpose  for 
which  it  is  given.  Will  free  made  man's  power 
wins  for  life  purposed  higher  life  the  worth  which 
brings  that  higher  life.  Will  free  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose of  Will  Higher. 

Will  Higher  was  before  His  Universe  was  made. 
He,  life  infinite,  wills  for  all  that  He  made.  Man, 
the  life  finite,  fulfills  by  will  free  His  purpose  for 
life  on  earth.  Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  life's 
Wilier,  must  found  the  philosophy  of  men. 


The  Purpose  of  Will  Higher  89 

Wilberforce. 
The  will  free  which  life's  Maker  wills  must  win 
for  life  its  worth,  He  makes  the  power  of  life  per- 
sonal. Man,  being  self,  wills  that  which  he 
chooses.  Worth  found  by  man  must  by  his  free 
will  be  found,  for  God  made  him  personal  self. 
Then  by  will  free  of  life  personal,  will  willed  to  be 
free,  life  immortal  finds  its  first  worth.  Man  is 
life  immortal.  Will  free  wins  for  that  life  the 
worth  which  by  the  purpose  of  life's  Maker  life 
immortal  must  find.  The  will  free  willed  to  life 
personal  fulfills  the  will  of  life's  Maker.  Will 
Higher,  man's  Maker,  life's  wilier,  purposes  for 
life  while  it  is.  Man  has  from  Him  the  will  free 
which  he  uses.  Made  life  free  in  will,  he  is  made 
life  nevertheless.  Willed  free  will,  his  will  is  given 
will  nevertheless.  Then  by  the  will  free  given 
man,  the  life  willed,  must  fulfill'  the  purpose  of 
Will  Higher.  Man  who  lives  the  earth  life  will- 
ing both  worth  and  unworthiness  wills  both  of  free 
will.  Yet  life  willed  higher  life  by  its  Maker  must 
find  that  higher  life.  Will  free  life  personal  uses, 
willed  that  will  by  Him  who  made  life  personal 
self.  That  life  will  finally  well  He  who  gives  free 
will  purposes ;  yet  worth  forced  life  personal  would 
not  find.  Man  who  lives  weakly,  using  free  will 
unworthily,  makes  life  weak,  unworthy  the  pur- 
posed higher  life.     But  finally  life  learns  as  Will 


90  Will  Higher  of  God 

Higher  purposes  the  wise  use  of  free  will,  and  life 
of  man,  the  self  which  lives  earth  life  by  the  wise 
purpose  of  God,  wins  through  free  will  its  free- 
dom. Wise  purpose  of  man's  Maker  makes  life 
free  personal  self.  His  purpose  life  fulfills  by 
wise  use  of  free  will.  The  will  of  Him  who  makes 
life  free  personal  self  that  life  must  by  free  will 
fulfill.  Bound  by  Will  Higher  is  life,  though  will 
be  free.  Man  using  his  own  free  will  fulfills  God's 
purpose  for  his  life.  Will  who  wills  for  life  made 
wills  that  life's  will  be  free  will.  Willed  free  will 
life  uses  then  that,  being  life  of  personal  self,  it 
will  for  itself  the  worth  which  He  purposes.  INI  an 
wills  that  life  win  freedom  by  the  will  free  willed 
to  personal  life.  Willed  freedom,  willed  free  will, 
life  must  by  free  will  find  the  worth  for  freedom. 
Will  Higher  wills  that  will  free  be  the  means 
through  which  life,  free  to  choose,  makes  itself 
worthy  the  freedom  He  purposes.  Worth  willed 
life  must  win  of  free  will.  Thus  man's  personal 
free  will  fulfills  God's  will. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He 
made  fulfills,  is  the  Will  who  made  the  Universe. 
His  purpose  life  made  by  him  fulfills  through  the 
means  He  gives.  Will  Higher  wills,  and  life  must 
fulfill  His  purpose.  The  wise  purpose  of  man's 
Maker  must  for  philosophy  be  thought. 


Life  Personal  91 

6. 

LIFE    PERSONAL 

Dr.  Coulter. 
The  thought  which  makes  life  the  part,  while  but 
a  part  as  man,  of  Infinity,  will  not  satisfy.  Life  is 
ego  while  it  is  man,  ego  while  it  is  freed  life,  ego 
to  eternity.  Not  from  eternity  life,  but  to  eternity 
life  personal;  made  life,  willed  the  powers  which 
help  life  forever;  made  life  with  mind,  will,  pur- 
pose that  the  life  of  self  will  keep  forever;  willed 
those  powers  as  personal  self;  willed  those  powers 
as  life  personal  forever.  Then  memory  becomes 
personal  power,  and  life  beyond  earth  knows  itself 
to  be  the  same  self  that  it  was  in  man.  Would  that 
mean  absorption  in  the  Infinite?  Would  life 
made  finite  be  infinite  in  wider  life?  Would 
that  which  is  once  finite  become  wider  than 
finite?  We  who  know  ourselves  here  would  tell 
this — life  will  forever  know  itself.  When  man 
wills  he  knows  that  he  is  self.  Life  wills  for  itself 
while  it  is.  Man  who  wills  is  life  that  wills,  then, 
and  what  life  becomes  in  the  beyond  life  finds  when 
freed  from  worlds.  Power  of  Infinity  made  life; 
will  of  Infinity  made  life.  Man  is  finite;  his  life 
will  forever  be  finite;  once  finite  forever  finite  of 


92  Will  Higher  of  God 

necessity.  Man  learns  wisdom  as  self;  life  wider 
finds  wider  wisdom  as  self.  Growing  while  the 
man  holds  it,  life  personal  wins  life  wider  beyond 
worlds;  then  still  wider  life  it  wins  to  immortality. 
Willed  those  powers  of  personal  life  which  life 
uses  forever,  life  wins  through  their  wise  use  the 
worth  which  its  Maker  purposes  life  shall  find, 
worth  for  His  presence  while  life  lasts. 


PURPOSE   OF    FREE    PERSONAL   LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

Purpose  of  Him  who  willed  life  into  being  fol- 
lows life  while  it  is.  Self  man  is,  purposed  wider, 
fuller  life.  Life's  free  purpose  wins  the  worth  for 
that  fuller  life.  Firm  will  that  life  wins  through 
life  of  man  it  takes  to  the  wider  work  of  life  freed 
from  man.  Worth  which  life  wins  by  the  help  of 
firm  will  life  takes  to  the  fuller  life.  Life  which 
is  worthy  in  man  holds  that  worth  in  fuller  life. 
The  firm  purpose  won  by  man  frees  life  for  which 
freedom  is  purposed  by  God. 

Will  that  man  has,  being  willed  power,  finds  for 
the  life  willed  personal  being  the  personal  worth. 
Life  wills  as  it  wishes,  made  personal  self  whose 
will  is  necessarily  free.     Man  wills  for  worth  or 


Purpose  of  Free  Personal  Life  93 

wickedness.  That  which  man  wills  life  wills  then. 
Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  using  personal  free 
purpose.  That  which  man  purposes  life  purposes 
then,  and  life  free  in  purpose  fulfills  the  purpose 
of  Him  who  made  life  free  because  to  that  life  is 
willed  worth  purposed  by  itself.  Will  that  life 
uses  well,  purposing  worth,  is  the  will  that  frees 
life  from  man.  That  which  man  finds  of  his  free 
will  is  purposed  by  his  Maker  then,  but  that  which 
the  Maker  of  life  purposes  that  life  shall  find  is 
worth.  Worth  frees  life  for  which  freedom  is  pur- 
posed; weakness,  wickedness,  unworthiness  are  but 
perverted  misuse  of  free  purpose.  Man  then, 
whose  free  purpose  frees  life,  fulfills  the  purpose 
of  his  Maker.  Weak  life  fulfills  not  that  purpose ; 
weak  life  purposes  that  which  Will  Higher  per- 
mits to  the  man  willed  to  be  free  personal  self;  but 
finally  that  free  life  which  is  by  God  purposed 
freedom  finds  the  worth  for  freedom  using  the 
purpose  which  God  makes  free. 

We,  the  lives  freed,  who  work  to  help  the 
thought  of  men,  tell  that  life  for  worlds  purposed 
is  life  for  which  higher  life  is  purposed.  Man  then 
wills  as  life  purposed  worth  for  that  higher  life. 
Man  wins  for  life  the  purposed  higher  life,  willing 
his  life  of  man  worthy.  The  higher  life  that  finds 
higher  worth  uses  the  purpose  made  by  life  of  man 
firm.     When  that  firm  purpose  man  has  found,  life 


94  Will  Higher  of  God 

wins  the  higher  life. 

The  purpose  which  man  has  was  willed  to  be  his 
help  while  the  life  wills  for  life  wider.  That  power 
willed  for  life  of  man  is  power  of  life  immortal. 
We,  the  lives  who  have  won  the  life  freed  from 
earth,  will  for  life  far  wider.  Self  that  has  life 
immortal  has  the  powers  that  help  life  immortal. 
Mind,  will,  purpose,  memory,  those  powers  that 
Will  Higher  makes  life's  powers,  man  uses  for  his 
life  of  earth.  The  purpose  of  life  then  helps  man, 
for  that  power  is  by  God  given  to  life  that  it  be 
help.  Self  wins  the  wider  life  purposing  well  for 
man's  life;  when  life  purposes  weakly  or  wickedly 
self  finds  further  life  of  man.  That  power,  free 
as  will  is  free,  makes  man  worthy  wider  life  of 
freedom ;  but  when  man  purposes  but  for  earth,  his 
life  works  still  on  earth.  Think,  man  of  weak  pur- 
pose. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds  through  purpose 
firm  to  win  the  wider  life.  Will  firm  that  life 
learns  through  work  becomes  firm  for  life  worthy 
if  man  purposes  for  the  higher  life.  Then  his  pur- 
pose helps  his  will;  then  his  firm  will  becomes  the 
help  God  purposes  it  shall  be.  When  man  finds 
the  firm  purpose  for  the  life  higher,  when  his  choice 
is  that  life  find  worth,  that  purpose  firm  wins  the 
freedom  which  by  God's  purpose  life  must.  Heed 
the  word,  man  of  weak  purpose. 


Purpose  of  Free  Personal  Life  95 

Will  Higher  wills  for  the  life  of  man  that  will 
free  win  the  freedom  which  He  purposes  that  life 
shall  find.  That  life  who  purposes  using  free 
choice  is  life  that  wills  finally  as  its  Maker  pur- 
poses. When  man  wills  life  wills.  The  purpose 
which  man  makes  firm  life  takes  to  higher  life,  but 
that  firm  purpose  Will  Higher  purposes  that  life 
shall  find  in  man.  Free  to  will  that  which  it 
chooses,  life  made  nevertheless  wills  finally  that 
which  Higher  Will  purposes.  That  purpose  which 
frees  life  from  man  man  himself  finds  finally.  Is 
the  man  who  lives  now  forced  to  purpose  as  life's 
Maker  purposes  ?  No.  Self  personal  life  is  made. 
The  free  purpose  of  personal  self  finally  is  taught 
wisdom  by  the  life  of  man,  and  that  which  life's 
Maker  purposes  for  life  of  self  the  free  purpose  of 
the  self  fulfills.  Well  life  purposes  that  wins  free- 
dom. Life  personal,  made  free,  fulfills  the  higher 
purpose  for  that  life  using  the  purpose  made  its 
free  power. 

Will  which  man  has  is  the  power  of  life  personal. 
That  which  man  wills  then  life  wills,  for  man  is  the 
personal  life.  But  man  lives  the  world  life  as  life 
that  wins  finally  wider  life  by  wise  use  of  the  per- 
sonal power,  free  will.  Will  free  of  life  personal 
frees  life  then.  That  power  which  life  uses  in  man 
frees  the  life  from  man.  Well  must  life  will  then 
to  win  freedom,  for  worth  brings  freedom.     Man  is 


96  Will  Higher  of  God 

life  purposed  worth,  but  that  worth  life  finds 
through  free  will  its  own.  Purpose  man  has,  the 
purpose  which  helps  free  will.  That  power  willed 
for  life  personal  to  be  help  helps  life  when  firmly 
and  wisely  used  to  win  the  worth  that  frees.  Then, 
man  who  wills  and  purposes  to-day,  why  wait  to 
find  firm  purpose? 

Wilberforce. 

The  purpose  free  of  life  personal  wins  for  that 
life  its  worth,  for  thus  the  will  of  life's  Maker  pur- 
poses. For  life  which  purposes  as  it  chooses  God 
purposes  then.  What  worth  wins  freedom? 
Worth  purposed  firmly.  For  that  purpose  work 
now,  man  of  earth. 

The  will  of  Him  who  purposes  for  life  forever 
wills  that  life  for  earth  be  man.  His  purpose  wills 
that  life  be  personal  life  whose  purpose  necessarily 
is  free.  Life  wills,  purposes,  works  that  which  it 
chooses,  being  personal  life;  yet  man  who  wills  is 
life  for  which  God  purposes  worth.  Using  the 
purpose  God  gives  man  lives  the  world  life  which 
life  immortal  is  willed.  That  life  immortal,  though 
free,  is  purposed  wider,  fuller  life.  While  man 
purposes  then,  his  Maker  purposes  for  his  life; 
while  life  purposes  as  it  chooses,  life  which  is  pur- 
posed worth  must  find  worth.  Thus  the  purpose 
willed  to  man,  which  purpose  God  makes  free,  must 


Purpose  of  Free  Personal  Life  97 

fulfill  God's  purpose  for  the  life  which  He  made 
personal  self. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  that  life  per- 
sonal win  the  wider  life  that  was  from  the  creation 
purposed.  What  worth  wins  for  life  that  wider, 
fuller  life?  The  worth  which  man  finds.  That  life 
which  wins  freedom  is  man  for  earth  life.  That 
worth  which  life  finds  by  God's  purpose  is  by  its 
own  purpose  found.  That  purpose  is  free.  Man 
wins  his  purposed  wider  life  by  purpose  his  own. 
Think  well,  man  who  purposes  to-day  for  life. 

Miltiades. 

Man  who  purposes  that  life  find  worth  finds  that 
worth  for  his  life  immortal.  Why  then  purpose 
weakly  for  life  worthy,  O  man?  Your  free  power, 
life's  purpose,  wins  for  your  life  of  self  the  freedom 
which  life  must  find.  Think  well,  then,  man  of  free 
purpose. 

The  purpose  which  life  finds  in  man  frees  life 
from  man.  What  purpose  frees  life?  Purpose 
for  worthy  life,  purpose  for  work  well  finished,  pur- 
pose that  life's  powers  be  worthy  the  wider  life's 
work.  When  man  finds  this  purpose  life  wins  free- 
dom. 


Ill 

PURPOSE  OF  WILL  HIGHER 


PURPOSE    OF    WELL    HIGHER 

Dr.  Coulter. 

THE  purpose  of  Omnipotent  Will,  the 
purpose  of  Him  who  made  life  man,  fol- 
lows that  life  while  it  is  man.  For  that 
life  He  wills  the  life  of  earth,  the  work 
of  earth.  Man  works  the  work  which  He  who 
made  him  life  purposes  then.  Will  Higher  made 
the  life  of  man  immortal  life.  He  wills  for  that 
life  work;  for  the  life  of  man  earth  work,  for  the 
life  wider  after  life  of  earth  the  work  of  wider  life. 
The  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  life  of  man  fol- 
lows life  while  it  is.  Life  immortal  works  its  first 
work  in  man  on  earth.  That  work  is  by  will  of 
life's  Maker  the  preparation  for  the  wider  work  of 
life  beyond  earth.  When  that  work  of  man  is  fin- 
ished He  who  wills  for  life  judges  that  life.  When 
life  wins  through  work  well  finished  the  worth  that 
work  well  finished  brings,  when  that  life  wins  firm 
will,  firm  purpose,  when  that  life  finds  will  free  the 
help  which  Higher  Will  purposes  it  shall  be,  He 
translates  life  to  wider,  fuller  life,  and  wider  work. 
When  that  life  wins  by  free  will  the  worth  which 

He  who  purposes  for  life  wills  that  man  must  find, 

101 


102  Will  Higher  of  God 

He  wills  for  that  life  wider  life  in  freedom  from 
man. 

When  the  Universe  was  not  the  life  who.  Omnip- 
otent, willed  it  to  be  was  Life  Infinite.  He  willed 
into  being  life  finite.  That  Will  Omnipotent  wills 
for  the  whole  that  He  made.  His  purpose  follows 
the  life  finite  which  He  made  while  He  wills  it  to  be. 
Man  is  that  life  for  which  Omnipotent  Will  pur- 
poses. For  that  life  He  purposes  wider,  fuller 
life;  for  that  life  He  purposes  worth;  for  that  life 
His  purpose  is  that  it  find  worth  for  itself ;  for  that 
life  He  purposes  that  it  find  worth  by  free  will. 
That  life  He  made  life  immortal,  and  for  that  life 
immortal  He  purposes  forever.  Man  wills  for  life 
wider  by  the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  him  life 
immortal.  Man  wills  his  worth  of  will  free  by  His 
purpose.     All  that  He  made  fulfills  His  purpose. 

Purpose  of  life's  Maker  wills  that  life  be  man  till 
it  win  of  its  free  will  the  life  wider.  Man  is  per- 
sonal self,  willed  free  will,  given  the  purpose  which, 
well  used,  wins  worth.  Then  that  life  which  for 
earth  is  man  wins  the  life  wider  by  purpose  of  Him 
who  made  it  personal  life.  But  the  will  which  per- 
sonal life  uses  must  be  well  used  if  man  the  life  win 
wider  life.  Purpose  of  the  Wilier  of  life  and  will 
follows  life  while  it  is.  Man,  life  immortal  willed 
wider  life,  purposed  to  find  will  given  the  help 


Purpose  of  Will  Higher  103 

which  brings  worth,  wins  the  life  wider  using  the 
will  of  life  personal.  That  which  life  must  find  it 
finds  by  free  will.  The  purpose  of  Him  who  wills 
for  life  forever  follows  life  while  it  is  man,  follows 
life  while  it  is.  He  wills  for  life  worth  far  exceed- 
ing man's  worth,  and  by  free  will  that  life  wins  its 
worth  in  man  and  while  it  is.  The  purpose  of  God 
that  which  He  made  fulfills. 

The  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  all  makes  man 
immortal  life.  Man,  the  worker  on  earth,  is  life 
that  wins  freedom  from  earth.  Man  who  wills  for 
life  of  man  is  life  that  wins  wider  life  than  that  of 
man.  Will  free  the  Wilier  of  Life  makes  man's 
power,  and  by  will  free  man  finds  the  worth  which 
brings  to  immortal  life  its  wider  life.  Man  wills 
worth  or  unworthiness  by  free  will.  Man  then  finds 
will  free  help  or  harm  as  he  chooses.  But  man  wills 
for  life  worthy  finally  because  the  life  which  is  then 
man  has  learned  wise  use  of  free  will.  The  pur- 
posed worth  life  finds  willing  by  free  will,  yet  life  is 
willed  worth.  But  what  man  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose? The  man  who  last  incarnates  life  immortal. 
That  life  for  which  worth  for  wider  life  is  purposed 
wins  the  wider  life  finally,  taught  by  the  purposed 
work  and  life  of  man.  The  purpose  of  life's  Wilier 
man  finally  fulfills,  for  life  in  man  finally  finds  free 
will  the  help  it  is  purposed  to  be.     Wise  free  will, 


104.  Will  Higher  of  God 

taught  wisdom  by  the  life  of  man,  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose of  life's  Maker  for  life  on  earth.  Man  wills 
his  worth  of  life  himself,  but  his  worth  is  by  Higher 
Will  purposed.  Man  wins  wider  life  by  wise  use 
of  will  free,  but  the  wise  use  is  by  Will  Higher  pur- 
posed. Will  free  fulfills  for  life  the  purpose  of 
life's  Maker. 

The  Higher  Purpose  for  the  life  willed  makes 
that  life  personal  self  whose  purpose  is  free.  But 
that  purpose,  though  man  uses  it  freely,  fulfills  the 
higher  purpose.  The  free  purpose  of  life  personal 
wins  the  worth  which  life  must  find.  The  purpose 
willed  to  life  fulfills  the  higher  purpose  for  life. 
Man  wills  his  worth  through  his  own  purpose,  but 
that  purpose  is  by  Will  Higher  given  him.  Man 
wills  that  worth  through  which  life  wins  wider  life. 
Willed  power  of  life  fulfills  higher  purpose  for  life. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  the  Wilier  of  Life,  pur- 
poses for  that  life  while  it  is.  Man  willed  his  life 
by  the  Higher  Will  is  purposed  wider  life  than  that 
of  worlds.  Worlds  fitted  for  life  of  man  God 
willed  to  be  working  place  for  the  life  which  He 
made  immortal.  The  life,  willed  to  be  man  is  life 
purposed  higher  life  than  that  of  worlds.  The  life 
which  Will  Higher  places  in  man  is  life  far  wider  to 
become  than  man's  life  can  be.  Help  the  life  of 
worlds  is  by  Will  Higher  purposed  to  be  for  the 
immortal  life. 


Purpose  of  Will  Higher  105 

Wilberforce. 

The  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  all  governs 
life  which  He  made.  Man" who  works  then  has  by 
His  purpose  that  work.  Will  Higher  He  is,  Will 
whose  purpose  life  made  by  Him  fulfills.  The 
work  which  He  wills  to  be  man's  work  prepares  life 
for  its  work  of  life  wider.  Life  willed  man's  work 
is  willed  wider  work  after  the  man's  work  is  fin- 
ished. Will  Higher  of  Omnipotent  God  rules  life 
while  it  is.  Man  works  because  He  wills  for  him 
work.  That  work  prepares  life  for  the  wider  life 
of  work  which  God  purposes  for  life  immortal. 

When  man  wins  the  worth  of  life  which  He  who 
made  him  purposes  that  life  on  earth  shall  find,  He 
translates  that  life  to  wider  life.  The  wider  life 
wins  fuller  worth  by  His  purpose.  Self  of  man 
finds  that  wider  life.  Man  is  made  life  of  personal 
self  whose  will  is  free.  Then  that  free  will  must 
fulfill  the  purpose  of  man's  Maker.  Willed  pur- 
pose firm,  willed  life  worthy,  that  life  of  personal 
self  wins  both  firm  purpose  and  worth  of  life  by 
wise  use  of  free  will.  The  purpose  of  Him  who 
made  man  life  personal,  who  made  him  free  in  will, 
is  by  that  free  will  of  personal  life  fulfilled. 

Purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  the  life  which  He 
made  follows  that  life  while  it  is.  Man  is  the  life 
to  which  He  wills  worth  for  wider  life;  will  that 
man  has  is  free;  but  for  that  life  while  it  wills  the 


106  Will  Higher  of  God 

purpose  of  Him  who  made  it  free  in  will  must  by 
that  free  will  be  fulfilled.  Man  is  personal  life 
whose  will,  necessarily  free,  must  finally  be  used  for 
worth;  and  that  which  He  wills  who  purposes  for 
life  while  it  is  man  that  personal  life  fulfills  by  wise 
use  of  its  own  free  will.  Man  who  wills  as  personal 
life  finds  by  personal  free  will  the  life  worthy  which 
is  by  purpose  of  God  willed.  Purpose  for  life  im- 
mortal of  Him  who  made  it  personal  self  is  by  the 
will  of  personal  self  fulfilled. 

The  life  which  wills  is  life  willed  worth;  the  life 
which  works  is  life  for  which  work  is  purposed  to  be 
teaching.  Man  is  life  for  which  wider  work  and 
wider  life  is  purposed.  Then  man  wins  that  life 
wider,  purposed  to  win  it,  and  his  work  which  Will 
Higher  gives  for  teaching  will  finally  teach.  Then 
why  may  life  work  ill?  Why  may  life  find  work 
little  help?  The  life  of  personal  self  wills  as  it 
chooses;  for  worth  or  unworthiness  it  uses  free 
will;  but  the  purpose  of  God  is  that  life  find  free 
will  a  help  finally.  Then  free  will  with  which  life 
works  may  be  worthily  or  unworthily  used,  but 
finally  must  be  worthily  used,  for  the  purpose  of 
Life's  Wilier  that  which  He  made  must  fulfill. 
Wisdom  life  finally  learns;  that  which  God  pur- 
poses life  finally  wills  of  its  free  will;  and  the  pur- 
pose for  which  life  is  man  on  earth  life  fulfills  using 
the  power  which  God  makes  free.     Will  for  life 


Purpose  of  Will  Higher  107 

worthy  life  finally  finds.  Thus  the  purpose  of 
man  accords  finally  with  the  purpose  for  life  im- 
mortal of  Will  Higher. 

Miltiades. 

Man  wins  his  worth  himself,  for  he  is  made  life 
of  personal  self;  but  his  worth  is  purposed.  That 
purposed  worth  life  must  find,  yet  the  life  is  free  in 
will.  What  follows  this  truth?  This — Man  who 
is  life  personal,  who  is  life  for  which  worth  is  by 
God  purposed,  must  find  the  life  worthy  using  free 
will.  The  purpose  of  Him  who  makes  life  free  in 
will  must  be  by  free  will  fulfilled.  Then  free  will, 
though  free,  must,  and  life  which  wills  for  itself  its 
worth  finds  it  by  God's  purpose. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  while  it 
is.  Man  who  wills  by  free  will  fulfills  finally  the 
purpose  of  Him  who  made  him  life  personal. 
What  thought  there  for  help !  By  God's  purpose 
life  wins  wider  life.  By  His  purpose  will  for  life 
worthy  is  finally  found.  Man  who  uses  life's  free 
will  finally  wins  by  that  free  will  the  worth  which 
brings  freedom  and  fuller  life.  For  life  that  wills 
using  free  will  God  purposes,  and  the  free  will  ful- 
fills His  purpose. 

The  higher  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  all  fol- 
lows that  which  He  made  while  He  wills  it  to  be. 
Man,  the  life  willed  by  Him,  wills  by  free  will  be- 


108  Will  Higher  of  God 

cause  He  wills  him  to  be  personal  self.  Man  who 
works  life's  earth  work  finishes  that  work  finally  be- 
cause God  wills  for  his  life  wider  work  and  fuller 
life.  All  that  which  God  made  fulfills  His  pur- 
pose. 


IV 
THE  POWERS  OF  LIFE 


THE    POWERS    OF    LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL,  mind,  purpose,  memory,  the 
powers  with  which  man  lives  his 
earth  life,  will  be  the  powers  of  the 
same  life  while  it  is.  Man  is  per- 
sonal self,  and  his  powers  are  his  own,  yet  they  be- 
long to  his  life  immortal  while  that  life  is.  Man 
works  using  those  powers,  and  by  their  wise  use  he 
wins  wider  work  of  man.  But  life  has  yet  wider 
work  to  do  than  that  of  man.  Man  who  wills,  pur- 
poses, thinks,  remembers,  is  using  the  powers  which 
his  life  immortal  will  forever  use.  But  the  man  is 
life  immortal  which  wins  its  first  worth  on  earth. 
Those  powers  must  be  made  help  while  the  life  is 
man,  for  the  Will  Higher  wills  that  by  their  wise 
use  life  wins  the  wider  life.  Man  wills  that  which 
Will  Higher  purposes  finally,  for  life  learns  in  man 
wisdom.  But  the  life  now  man  may  not  use  those 
powers  wisely.  Then  that  life  wins  but  further 
work  of  man.  Well  has  life  willed,  well  has  it  pur- 
posed, well  has  it  used  mind  when  it  wins  the  free- 
dom which  God  purposes  for  life  immortal.     Man 

wins  the  worth  of  life  by  which  life  is  made  ready 

111 


112  Will  Higher  of  God 

for  life  wider  using  well  those  powers ;  life  in  wider 
life  wins  its  wider  worth  using  the  powers  that  won 
it  freedom.  The  powers  of  life  immortal  man  has; 
man  must  wisely  use  those  mighty  powers  if  he 
would  win  freedom. 

Wilberforce. 
The  powers  with  which  man  works,  those  mighty 
powers  whose  worth  man  but  partly  finds,  are  the 
powers  of  his  life  immortal.  With  those  powers 
life  works  while  it  is.  Man  uses  those  powers  for 
the  work  by  which  life  is  taught  wisdom.  They 
win  for  life  immortal  the  wider  life  of  freedom. 
Man  first  uses  them,  knowing  that  they  help  him, 
but  unknowing  that  they  belong  to  his  life  itself. 
When  man  wisely  uses  them  his  life  wins  freedom 
from  work  of  man.  Then  think,  man  who  uses 
mind,  will,  purpose.  The  life  which  would  win 
freedom  must  wisely  use  them  all. 


V 

WORDS  FOR  HELP 


WORDS   FOR   HELP 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WE  who  make  this  book  would  help 
men  to  wise  thought  for  life  itself. 
Work  which  man  does  he  does  that 
life  immortal  free  itself  from  weak 
will.  His  purpose  who  made  life  wills  that  man's 
work  be  teaching  for  life  itself.  What  purpose 
may  man  find  by  the  teaching  which  God  wills  for 
life?  Purpose  that  makes  life  worthy  freedom 
from  man.  Will  which  man  uses  life  has  for  its 
use  after  it  leaves  man.  God  gives  that  will  to  man 
that  it  be  help  to  him  in  his  man's  life,  and  wider 
life  finds  help  when  man  uses  his  will  with  purpose 
that  life  work  well  and  be  worthy.  His  power  man 
has  by  God's  purpose.  Life  purposed  wider  life 
man  is,  and  his  wise  use  of  that  power  of  life  man 
learns  through  the  teaching  his  Maker  purposes. 
Man  wills  then  on  earth  that  life  immortal  find 
worth  for  freedom  and  higher,  fuller,  more  glorious 
life. 

Man,  world-dweller,  is  life  purposed  life  wider 
and  work  higher  than  it  finds  on  earth.     His  work 

115 


116  Will  Higher  of  God 

purposed  for  teaching  helps  life  to  firm  will  needed 
for  its  wider  work.  Man  lives  the  earth  life  think- 
ing his  work  but  helps  for  that  life ;  Will  Higher 
made  that  work  help  for  life  forever,  for  by  that 
work  life  finds  the  firm  will  purposed  to  be  help  for 
life  forever.  Man  wills  as  life  his  work  then,  pur- 
posed by  it  to  win  firm  will.  Yet  work  teaches  man 
little,  perhaps.  How  then  will  life  find  freedom? 
It  cannot  find  freedom  until  the  firm  will  needed 
for  wider  life  is  won.  God  wills  that  life  be  man. 
He  wills  that  life  find  in  man  firm  will.  All  lives 
finally  find  freedom.  But  until  life  finds  firm  will 
it  must  work  man's  work  and  be  man.  Think,  you 
who  will  your  work  weakly  done:  you  will  each 
day  for  life. 

Man  who  lives  the  life  of  earth  wills  for  his  man's 
work  and  life  using  the  powers  he  has  as  life  pur- 
posed immortality.  His  will,  his  purpose,  his  mind 
he  has  as  the  powers  which  help  life  that  must  work 
both  man's  work  and  wider  work.  As  life  that 
must  find  freedom  by  the  wise  use  of  those  powers 
he  lives  the  earth  life.  Will  firm  he  must  find,  for 
by  will  firm  life  frees  itself  from  earth.  Purpose 
firm  he  must  find,  for  life  willed  freedom  purposes 
for  itself  the  worth  that  frees.  Mind  he  must  use 
well,  for  life  will  need  its  help  when  freed.  The 
powers  which  man  uses  he  uses  for  life  purposed 
freedom.     Then  mind,  will,  purpose  he  must  finally 


Words  for  Help  117 

use  well,  for  the  life  of  self  must  be  freed.  God 
wills  for  man  those  mighty  powers  which  help  life 
forever.  Will  Higher  purposes  for  life  to  which 
He  gives  those  powers  freedom  won  by  wise  use  of 
them  all. 

Will  Higher  purposes  for  life  willed  man's  work 
and  wider  work  that  by  man's  work  it  prepare  for 
the  wider  work  beyond  earth.  Through  wise  use  of 
man's  powers  he  wins  freedom  for  life  itself.  Pur- 
posed worth  in  man,  life  finds  that  worth  through 
man's  use  of  mind,  will  and  purpose.  Those 
powers  man  uses  as  life  willed  work  wider  to  come, 
and  the  purpose  which  frees  life  life  finds  in  man 
by  the  way  God  wills,  man's  work  done  well  and 
man's  life  lived  well.  Will  free  man  has,  and  by 
that  free  will  he  works  his  man's  work  and  makes 
his  life  worthy.  God  purposes  that  man  find, 
through  the  way  He  purposes,  the  firm  will,  the 
firm  purpose,  the  well  used  mind  that  life  needs 
when  freed. 

Man  wills  for  life  purposed  freedom.  By  will 
given  man  wills,  and  the  purpose  which  makes  life 
worthy,  God's  firm  unwavering  purpose,  man  ful- 
fills by  wise  use  of  free  will.  That  man  wills  as 
life  purposed  wider  life  is  thought  which  helps  the 
man  who  works  man's  work.  Believing  that  to  be 
truth  the  man  will  use  his  free  will  well,  and  free 
will  becomes  the  help  that  Will  Higher  purposes. 


118  Will  Higher  of  God 

Life  wills  as  man  wills,  well  or  ill.  Man  who  has 
free  will,  remember  that.  Work  for  life,  will  for 
life,  purpose  for  life.  Wider  life  comes  after  the 
man's  life  finished  when  man  has  learned  the  lesson 
which  Will  Higher  purposes  life  shall  learn,  that 
will  to  be  help  must  be  firm  in  work  and  firm  for 
worth.     Life  wills  as  you  will,  O  man.     Think. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  while  life 
is  man  for  that  life.  That  word  men  need,  for  they 
forget  God  too  often.  Man  works  the  earth  work 
thinking  he  works  for  his  man's  life  only;  man  wills 
that  his  man's  work  be  well  done  thinking  he  wills 
for  himself  as  man  only.  He  works  immortal  life's 
work;  he  wills  as  immortal  life.  As  man  wills  life 
wills,  and  the  thought  that  man  works  and  wills  for 
earth  only  harms  him.  We  tell  that  life  immortal 
works  man's  work,  and  we  know  that  we  tell  truth. 
Man  who  wills  man's  work  well  finished  wins  the 
firm  will  that  life  needs  when  freed.  Man  who 
purposes  while  he  works  that  his  life  be  worthy  wins 
that  worth  for  life  immortal.  Man  who  uses  mind 
well  makes  that  mind  ready  for  life's  wider  thought. 
We  help  those  who  will  heed  our  words.  Man  who 
works  now,  think.  Will  Higher,  life's  Wilier, 
man's  Creator,  wills  that  while  life  is  man  it  pre- 
pare for  the  wider  life  He  purposes  for  life  im- 
mortal. We  who  know  Him,  we  who  have  won 
that  wider  life,  would  tell  to  men  His  word,  His 


Words  for  Help  119 

truth.  Man  who  wills,  think  why  He  wills  you  free 
will;  think  why  He  made  you  life  personal;  why 
you  have  those  mighty  powers,  mind,  will,  and  pur- 
pose; why  life  uses  them  in  you;  why  you  will  for 
the  wider  life  now ;  why  will  is  free ;  why  man  must 
find  free  will  firm.  The  willed  life  you  are;  the 
life's  powers  He  who  made  you  man  wills  you  the 
man  to  use;  the  will  free  of  life  personal  He  wills 
you.  You  then,  win  the  worth  that  He  purposes 
life  shall  find  willing  by  your  free  will.  You  make 
life  purposed  wider  life  ready  for  wider  life.  Will 
that  thought  be  help?     We  pray  it  may. 

Will  Higher,  the  will  of  the  Maker  of  Life,  wills 
for  life  made  while  it  is.  The  will  which  life  uses 
is  willed  power ;  the  purpose  which  life  uses  is  willed 
power.  Man,  the  life  of  earth,  uses  for  his  work 
and  for  his  worth  the  will  free  willed  to  him  as  life. 
Will  free  of  life  purposed  worth  wins  that  purposed 
worth.  Will  of  man,  willed  will,  wins  purposed 
worth  of  man  who  is  life  willed  worth  for  wider, 
fuller,  better  life.  Will  free  wins  for  life  the  worth 
it  wins  to  eternity.  God's  purpose  that  life  find 
worth  for  His  presence  life  fulfills  by  the  free  will 
which  God  gives.  Man  who  wills,  your  will  it  is 
which  must  win  that  worth.     Think  well. 

With  life  personal  man's  Maker  wills  that  he 
work  on  earth.  Life  personal  wills  of  will  free. 
Work  of  man,  purposed  to  teach  life  personal  the 


120  Will  Higher  of  God 

wise  use  of  free  will,  helps  that  life  while  it  is. 
Life  personal  wills  for  wider  life  using  free  will, 
and  for  worth  life  wills  while  it  is  of  free  will.  The 
will  free  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Him  who  makes 
it  free.  Man,  the  life  personal,  wins  that  which 
life  must,  worth  for  freedom,  by  wise  use  of  his  will 
free.  Man,  purposed  life  wider,  finds  worth  that 
brings  life  wider  using  will  free.  Will  for  life 
worthy  is  will  free  wisely  used.  Man  who  wills  to- 
day, find  this  thought  your  help. 

Man  wills,  choosing  as  he  wishes,  but  the  pur- 
pose of  Higher  Will  follows  life  that  is  for  earth 
man  while  that  life  wills  on  earth  and  forever. 
Man,  though  free  in  will,  is  life  which  fulfills  the 
purpose  of  Higher  Will.  Will  free  which  man 
uses  is  by  Higher  Will  given,  and  the  purpose  of 
the  Will  who  makes  life  personal  self  is  by  the 
willed  free  will  fulfilled.  Worth  won  by  life  in  man 
that  life  takes  to  wider  work  and  fuller  life.  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  life  while  it  works  man's  work 
that  through  that  work  it  find  firm  will.  That 
which  Higher  Will  purposes  the  life  fulfills  by  firm 
will  won  in  man.  Will  Higher  made  man  life,  wills 
for  that  life  free  will,  wills  that  free  will  fulfill  His 
purpose. 

Man  wills  his  worth  himself,  but  man  is  life  which 
must  find  worth  for  wider  life  than  that  of  man. 
Will  free  wins  man's  worth  of  life,  but  will  free 


Words  for  Help  121 

must  win  that  worth,  for  life  is  made  personal  self. 
Will  firm  wins  freedom,  but  life  must  find  will  firm 
in  man.  God's  purpose  life  must  fulfill  of  free  will, 
and  life  which  wills  of  free  will  wins  life  wider,  by 
the  purpose  of  its  Maker,  through  wise  use  of  free 
will  which  life  finds  through  the  teaching  which  God 
wills  for  man. 

The  higher  purpose  of  Him  who  wills  for  life 
made  by  Him  is  by  that  life  fulfilled  through  the 
means  He  provides.  The  man  of  free  will  wins 
higher  life  using  that  free  will.  The  life  made  im- 
mortal life,  personal  self  while  it  is,  fulfills  by  the 
powers  of  personal  life  the  purpose  of  its  Maker. 
Man  wins  purposed  worth  for  higher  life  purposed 
by  the  will  made  his  by  Higher  Purpose.  Life 
wins  to  eternity  its  worth  through  the  personal  free 
will  that  man  uses  for  its  first  worth.  The  higher 
purpose  of  life's  Maker  the  life  which  for  worlds  is 
man,  the  life  freed,  fulfills  through  the  means  that 
He  provides. 

We,  with  the  man  who  writes  the  words  we  tell, 
have  worked  with  purpose  to  help  those  who  will 
think.  We  tell  that  man  wins  the  worth  that  by 
God's  purpose  brings  wider,  fuller,  more  glorious 
life;  that  life  must  win  that  worth  by  free  will, 
for  that  which  by  God's  purpose  life  must  find  on 
earth  it  must  find  using  its  own  free  will.  Man 
wills  as  life  for  which  God  wills  wider  life;  man 


122  Will  Higher  of  God 

wills  that  which  life's  Maker  purposes  using  his  will 
free ;  man  wills  by  will  his  own,  the  free  will  of  life 
personal,  his  worth,  but  that  will  God  wills  shall  win 
for  life  its  worth  while  life  is.  While  man  wills 
that  which  he  chooses,  man's  Maker  purposes  for 
his  life  immortal.  The  worth  by  which  man  wins 
freedom  he  must  will  himself.  What  thought  for 
men  here!     We  help  those  who  will  heed  our  words. 

Wilberforce. 

Wise  purpose  of  Will  Higher  made  life  man; 
wise  purpose  of  life's  Maker  made  life  free  in  will, 
free  in  purpose ;  wise  purpose  of  life's  Wilier  places 
life  on  earth,  there  to  find  the  firm  will  which  He 
wills  that  life  find  in  man. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  that  man  win 
finally  the  worth  that  permits  freedom.  Finally 
life  in  a  man  wills  well ;  finally  man  wills  for  worth 
using  free  will.  God  purposes  that  life  win  in  man 
that  which  freed  life  finds  help,  firm  will,  firm  pur- 
pose. Man  who  wills  must  learn  the  lesson  which 
Will  Higher  purposes  that  life  shall  finally  learn 
in  man.  Man  himself  finds  for  life  the  firm  will 
and  purpose  which  freed  life  uses.  Each  man  may 
find  them  now.  Will  that  must  be  firm  finally 
you  have,  purpose  that  must  be  firm.  Why  not 
make  them  firm  now,  O  man?  Each  life  wins  its 
own  firm  will  and  purpose. 


Words  for  Help  123 

Will  firm  that  helps  life  man  finds  when  he  has 
learned  the  lesson  God  purposes.  Weak  life  has 
its  lesson  yet  to  learn.  Weak  life  wins  not  free- 
dom.    Remember  this,  man  of  weak  will. 

Will  firm  life  finds  in  man.  Will  firm  found  by 
man  life  will  hold  firm  to  eternity.  Think,  who 
will  now  on  earth.  You  may  find  for  life  immortal 
the  firm  will  it  will  hold  while  it  is. 

Will  Higher  was  before  He  made  the  Universe. 
Man  is  part  of  the  Universe  created.  The  Will 
who  made  all  beside  Himself  wills  for  all  which  He 
made.     None  may  forbid  His  will. 

Then  why  was  man  made  free  ?  For  purpose  of 
God  life  was  made  free  personal  self.  Will  Higher 
wills  for  life  made  free.  His  will  is  the  will  of  the 
Master  of  Life.  Life  made  by  Him  fulfills  His 
will  as  He  purposes.  What  must  has  life  to  fulfill 
then?  That  by  will  which  God  made  free  it  free 
itself  from  weakness.  For  wise  purpose  of  fife's 
Maker  man  was  made  life  personal.  What  follows 
weak,  unworthy  will?  Punishment  of  weakness 
further,  punishment  of  freedom  postponed.  Will 
for  worth  God  purposes,  and  by  free  will  life  must 
win  worth.  When  man  chooses  unworthy  life  he 
himself  holds  life  to  earth.  What  would  you  will 
then,  you  who  are  free ;  worth  that  brings  freedom, 
or  unworthiness  that  makes  you  man  for  further  life 
on  earth  ?     You  choose,  for  Will  who  made  you  life 


124,  Will  Higher  of  God 

wills  that  life  win  freedom  by  its  own  free  will. 
Man  who  wills  for  life,  think. 

Will  firm  man  finds  for  life;  purpose  firm  man 
finds  for  life.  For  will  firm  man  needs  His  help 
who  knows  man's  weakness.  Help  He  will  give 
that  man  who  wishes  His  help.  Man  wills  well 
helped  by  Him.  Prayer  followed  by  honest  work 
brings  the  help  life  needs.  Will  firm  helps  life; 
will  weak  holds  life  to  man.  Work  then  man's 
work  praying  for  firm  will,  yet  honestly  working, 
too.  That  wins  God's  help.  Then  life  finds  the 
firm  will  which  brings  freedom.  Think,  who  live 
man's  life  now. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  man.  Each  man  wins  by 
his  free  will  the  worth  he  wishes,  but  for  the  life 
which  is  man  Will  Higher  purposes.  Not  for  life 
made  to  forbid  His  will.  Finally  life  in  man  wins 
the  worth  which  He  purposes  it  shall.  Though  life 
wills  of  free  will,  life  must  obey  finally  God's  will. 
Weak  life  remains  held  to  earth  while  it  fulfills  not 
God's  will.     Think,  man  of  free  will;  think  well. 

Will  that  man  has,  being  life's  will,  man  uses  in 
life's  work  of  earth.  That  work  finished,  life  works 
the  wider  work  of  freed  life.  Man  is  the  life 
which  must  find  worth.  By  free  will  man  finds  the 
purposed  worth  which  frees  life  from  earth.  In 
man  life  works  willing  for  wider  life,  and  wider  life 
is  won  by  the  will  which  Will  Higher  makes  power 


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of  free  personal  life.  Will  free  of  life  personal 
wins  the  worth  that  life  must  find.  Will  Higher 
thus  wills,  and  life  fulfills  His  will. 

Miltiades. 

Man,  who  is  life  wider  to  he,  wills  as  man  for  that 
wider  life.  His  free  will  God  made  the  means  by 
which  life  must  win  freedom.  God's  purpose  man 
finally  fulfills  using  the  free  will  well,  and  finally 
life  wins,  as  God  purposes,  that  worth  through 
which  it  becomes  ready  for  wider  life.  The  man 
who  wills  to-day  is  life  willed  wider  life.  The  will 
man  uses  to-day  must  free  that  life  from  earth. 
Think,  you  to  whom  God  wills  the  means  by  which 
life  must  win  freedom.     Think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  purpose 
as  help  to  free  will.  The  firm  purpose  which  life 
must  win  on  earth,  man  finds.  Life  purposed  free- 
dom and  wider  life  must  purpose  firmly.  Free  to 
will  worth  or  unworthiness,  made  life  immortal,  life 
personal,  man  must  find  firm  purpose  while  using 
free  will.  Will  weak  wins  but  weak  purpose ;  weak 
purpose  frees  not  immortal  life.  Man  who  wills 
for  life  immortal,  think. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  of  man  that  work  be 
its  portion  while  in  man  and  when  freed  from  man. 
Will  Higher  wills  that  life  work  man's  work  and  be 
man  while  it  lives  on  earth.     Man  wills  that  life  win 


126  Will  Higher  of  God 

freedom;  man  finds  the  firm  will  which  helps  life 
when  freed;  man  uses  that  firm  will  while  winning 
for  his  life  the  worth  that  permits  freedom;  man 
finds  the  purpose  firm  that  helps  freed  life.  Think, 
you  who  are  men.  You  find  for  life  freed  the  firm 
will,  the  firm  purpose  which  that  life  needs.  Why 
wait  for  firm  will  then,  why  wait  for  purpose  firm? 
You  must  find  them  before  God  permits  freedom. 
Remember  this,  O  men. 

Will  Higher  wills  that  life  be  man  while  it  wins 
firm  will.  Will  firm  man  finds  then  by  God's  pur- 
pose. Man  who  works,  remember  that  firm  will, 
firm  for  both  work  and  worth  of  life,  wins  freedom. 
Will  firm  that  life  uses  in  the  life  wider  it  finds  in 
man. 

Will  for  worth  man  finds  through  prayer  to  his 
Maker.  God  wills  for  the  life  He  made  His  help 
when  the  life  prays  honestly.  Man  who  wills 
weakly,  think.  Why  let  life  weakly  work;  why  let 
life  weakly  purpose?  Pray  honestly;  work  after 
prayer  firmly;  will  after  prayer  firmly;  then  your 
prayer  is  honest.  Why  let  life  waver,  O  man? 
Ask  with  honest  purpose  your  Maker's  help. 

Will  Higher,  Will  who  governs  life  immortal  for- 
ever, wills  that  man  work  life's  work  of  earth. 
Man  works  life's  work  using  for  that  work  life's 
free  will.  The  man  who  works  now  may  will 
weakly;  the  life  finally  wins  the  firm  will  which 


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AVill  Higher  purposes.  Will  Higher  frees  life 
when  will  free  of  man  has  won  the  worth  He  pur- 
poses life  shall  find  on  earth. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  the  life  made  by  Him, 
wills  that  life  be  man;  wills  that  life  win  freedom 
and  wider  life;  wills  for  that  life  wider  worth  than 
man  may  attain.  When  that  which  Higher  Will 
purposes  the  life  willed  free  will  fulfills  by  that  free 
will,  His  purpose  translates  that  life  to  freedom, 
wider  work,  fuller,  better  life.  Won  by  man  is 
worth  for  fuller  life ;  won  by  man  is  wider  life  than 
man  knows.  The  life  freed  wills  its  worth  using 
free  will  made  firm  by  man.  Will  free  man  knows 
he  has.  Then  by  that  free  power  man  wins  wider, 
fuller,  happier  life. 


VI 
FINAL  WORD 


FINAL    WORD 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WE  who  have  by  work  of  man  finished 
found  the  wider  work  of  life  freed, 
we  who  have  won  the  worth  of  life  by 
which  life  finds  freedom,  would  by 
our  word  help  men  to  find  this  life.  The  life  freed 
wins  wider  life  to  eternity.  We  thank  our  Maker 
for  the  life  and  work  of  man  that  taught  us  to  win 
this  life.  We  pray  thee,  O  God,  to  bless  this  our 
work  for  help. 


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